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 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. [2] 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. [3]
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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. [4] 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. [3] Four different releases spent a total of three weeks each atop the chart – The Prophet Speaks by Van Morrison, [2] Kind of Blue by jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, [5] Reckless Heart, the seventh studio album by Joanne Shaw Taylor, [6] and War in My Mind , the ninth solo studio album by Beth Hart. [7]
