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 2011, 52 charts were published with eight albums at number one. The first number-one album of the year was Seasons of My Soul , the debut album by Rumer, which spent the first five weeks of the year atop the chart to complete a 13-week run. [2] The last number-one album of the year was Caro Emerald's debut album Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor , which topped the last four charts of the year. [3]
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The most successful album on the UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart in 2011 was Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor, which spent a total of 20 weeks at number one over four separate spells – two of six weeks and two of four weeks. [3] Seasons of My Soul spent a total of 11 weeks at number one, [2] while the posthumous Eva Cassidy album Simply Eva spent five weeks at number one in the spring. [4] Two debut albums – Frank by Amy Winehouse and Let Them Talk by actor Hugh Laurie – spent five weeks each atop the UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart. [5] [6] Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor finished 2011 as the 35th best-selling album of the year in the UK. [7]
