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. [1] In 2006, 52 charts were published with ten albums at number one. Michael Bublé's fourth studio album It's Time was the first number-one album of the year, spending the first five weeks of the year atop the chart at the end of a 13-week run starting in 2005. [2] Frank , the debut album by Amy Winehouse, was the last number-one album of the year, reaching the top spot in its 95th week on the chart. [3]
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The most successful album on the UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart in 2006 was The Very Best of Nina Simone , a greatest hits album by Nina Simone, which spent a total of 27 weeks atop the chart over three spells, the longest of which was 23 consecutive weeks between May and October. [4] Norah Jones spent six weeks at number one with her first album Come Away with Me , [5] plus another week with its follow-up Feels Like Home . [6] Michael Bublé had two number-one albums during 2006, with It's Time and Caught in the Act spending five weeks each atop the chart. [7] [8] The Very Best of Nina Simone finished 2006 as the 40th best-selling album of the year in the UK. [9]
