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 1999, 52 charts were published with 14 albums at number one. The first number-one album of the year was the 1959 album Kind of Blue by American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, which spent the first six weeks of the year atop the chart. [2] The last number-one album of the year was The Only Jazz Album You'll Ever Need, a compilation of songs by various artists released by RCA Victor, which spent the last three weeks of the year atop the chart. [3]
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The most successful album on the UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart in 1999 was Kind of Blue, which spent a total of 19 weeks at number one across six different spells, the longest of which was six weeks across January and February. [2] Global Television's Salsa Fever! compilation was number one for eight consecutive weeks in the summer, [4] while Eric Clapton's compilation Blues was the second most successful single-artist album of the year, with four weeks at number one. [5] Four more albums spent three weeks each at number one in 1999: His Definitive Greatest Hits by B. B. King, [6] When I Look in Your Eyes by Diana Krall, [7] and the compilations The Very Best of Latin Jazz 2 and The Only Jazz Album You'll Ever Need. [8] [3]
