List of UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart number ones of 2018

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Joe Bonamassa spent a total of 11 weeks atop the UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart in 2018: six with Black Coffee (with Beth Hart), four with Redemption and one with British Blues Explosion Live. Joe Bonamassa - 2013 World Tour - Meistersingerhalle Nuernberg - 11-03-2013 (-31534407).jpg
Joe Bonamassa spent a total of 11 weeks atop the UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart in 2018: six with Black Coffee (with Beth Hart), four with Redemption and one with British Blues Explosion Live.

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 2018, 52 charts were published with 27 albums at number one. The first number-one album of the year was Parking Lot Symphony by Trombone Shorty. [2] The last number-one album of the year was The Prophet Speaks , the 40th studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, which topped the last three charts of December. [3]

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The most successful album on the UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart in 2018 was Black Coffee by Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa, which spent six weeks at number one. [4] Bonamassa also spent four weeks atop the chart with Redemption and another with British Blues Explosion Live. [5] [6] Van Morrison and Joey DeFrancesco spent four weeks atop the chart together with You're Driving Me Crazy (one week) and The Prophet Speaks (three weeks), [7] [8] as did John Coltrane with The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6 (with Miles Davis – one week) and Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (three weeks). [9] [10]

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In addition to Black Coffee, Beth Hart also spent a week at number one with Front and Center: Live from New York. Beth Hart, March 2022.jpg
In addition to Black Coffee, Beth Hart also spent a week at number one with Front and Center: Live from New York.
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Van Morrison (top) and Joey DeFrancesco (bottom) spent four weeks atop the chart together with the albums You're Driving Me Crazy and The Prophet Speaks .
John Coltrane was also number one for four weeks with two albums: three with Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album and one with The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6 (with Miles Davis). John Coltrane 1963 cropped ver2.jpg
John Coltrane was also number one for four weeks with two albums: three with Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album and one with The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6 (with Miles Davis).
Issue dateAlbumArtist(s)Record label(s)Ref.
5 January Parking Lot Symphony Trombone Shorty Blue Note [11]
12 January Liquid Spirit Gregory Porter [12]
19 January [13]
26 January [14]
2 February Black Coffee Beth Hart, Joe Bonamassa Provogue [15]
9 February [16]
16 February A Humdrum Star GoGo Penguin Blue Note [17]
23 FebruaryBlack CoffeeBeth Hart, Joe BonamassaProvogue [18]
2 March [19]
9 March [20]
16 March [21]
23 March Irish Tour '74 Rory Gallagher UMC [22]
30 March The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6 Miles Davis, John Coltrane Sony [23]
6 April Blue & Lonesome The Rolling Stones Polydor [24]
13 April [25]
20 AprilFront and Center: Live from New YorkBeth HartProvogue [26]
27 AprilBlue & LonesomeThe Rolling StonesPolydor [27]
4 May You're Driving Me Crazy Van Morrison, Joey DeFrancesco Legacy [28]
11 MayThe Kings & Queens of Swingvarious artists UMOD [29]
18 May The Prodigal Son Ry Cooder Fantasy [30]
25 MayBritish Blues Explosion LiveJoe BonamassaProvogue [31]
1 June The Return Kamaal Williams Warp [32]
8 JuneGot the Bluesvarious artistsUMOD [33]
15 JuneNow That's What I Call Jazz Virgin/EMI/Sony [34]
22 June [35]
29 June Heaven and Earth Kamasi Washington Young Turks [36]
6 July Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album John Coltrane Impulse! [37]
13 July [38]
20 July [39]
27 JulyNow That's What I Call Jazzvarious artistsVirgin/EMI/Sony [40]
3 August [41]
10 AugustGot the BluesUMOD [42]
17 August High Water I The Magpie Salute Provogue [43]
24 August [44]
31 August [45]
7 September Anthem Madeleine Peyroux Decca [46]
14 SeptemberIndigo Kandace Springs Blue Note [47]
21 September Love Is Here to Stay Tony Bennett, Diana Krall Columbia/Verve [48]
28 September Redemption Joe BonamassaProvogue [49]
5 October Can U Cook? Seasick Steve BMG [50]
12 OctoberRedemptionJoe BonamassaProvogue [51]
19 October [52]
26 October [53]
2 NovemberCan U Cook?Seasick SteveBMG [54]
9 NovemberMoore Blues for Gary Bob Daisley & Friends ear [55]
16 November The Capitol Studios Sessions Jeff Goldblum, The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra Decca [56]
23 November [57]
30 November [58]
7 December Bitter-Sweet Bryan Ferry BMG [59]
14 December The Prophet Speaks Van MorrisonExile [60]
21 December [61]
28 December [62]

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