The UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling jazz and blues albums in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each album's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2019, 52 charts were published with 25 albums at number one. The first number-one album of the year was The Prophet Speaks, the 40th studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, which topped the first three charts of January. The last number-one album of the year was Here's to Christmas, the debut album by former footballer Chris Kamara, which spent the last six weeks of 2019 atop the chart.
The most successful album on the UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart in 2019 was Blues, a greatest hits album by Rory Gallagher, which spent a total of ten weeks at number one over two spells of eight and two weeks. Here's to Christmas was the second most successful album of the year, with its run of six consecutive weeks at the end of 2019 the second longest spell of the year behind Blues. Four different releases spent a total of three weeks each atop the chart – The Prophet Speaks by Van Morrison, Kind of Blue by jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, Reckless Heart, the seventh studio album by Joanne Shaw Taylor, and War in My Mind, the ninth solo studio album by Beth Hart.
Chart history
Issue dateAlbumArtist(s)Record label(s)Ref.4 JanuaryThe Prophet SpeaksVan MorrisonExile11 January18 January25 JanuaryKind of BlueMiles DavisColumbia1 FebruarySurvivor BluesWalter TroutProvogue8 February15 FebruaryKind of BlueMiles DavisColumbia22 FebruaryFyahTheon CrossGearbox1 MarchNobody Told MeJohn MayallForty Below8 MarchSweet ReleaseReese Wynans & FriendsProvogue15 MarchKind of BlueMiles DavisColumbia22 MarchReckless HeartJoanne Shaw TaylorSilvertone29 March5 AprilHow HighCC SmugglersCabin12 AprilReckless HeartJoanne Shaw TaylorSilvertone19 AprilThe Big Bad BluesBilly GibbonsSnakefarm26 AprilEvans in EnglandBill EvansResonance3 MayYou Can't Steal My JoyEzra CollectiveEnter the Jungle10 May17 May24 MayBaby, Please Come HomeJimmie VaughanTLMC31 May40Stray CatsMascot7 JuneBluesRory GallagherUMC14 June21 June28 June5 July12 July19 July26 July2 AugustGrits, Beans and Greens:The Lost Fontana Studio Session 1969Tubby Hayes QuartetFontana9 AugustBlumeNérijaDomino16 AugustGrits, Beans and Greens:The Lost Fontana Studio Session 1969Tubby Hayes QuartetFontana23 AugustDown to the RiverThe Allman Betts BandBMG30 AugustBluesRory GallagherUMC6 September13 SeptemberValve Bone WoeChrissie HyndeBMG20 SeptemberLight It UpKris Barras BandProvogue27 SeptemberKill or Be KindSamantha FishRounder4 OctoberWar in My MindBeth HartProvogue11 October18 October25 OctoberHigh Water IIThe Magpie Salute1 NovemberTrue Love: A Celebration of Cole PorterHarry Connick Jr.Verve8 NovemberI Shouldn't Be Telling You ThisJeff Goldblum, The Mildred Snitzer OrchestraDecca15 NovemberTrue Love: A Celebration of Cole PorterHarry Connick Jr.Verve22 NovemberHere's to ChristmasChris KamaraSo What?29 November6 December13 December20 December27 December
See also 2019 in British music
References
External links Official Jazz & Blues Albums Chart at the Official Charts Company