List of UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart number ones of 1999

Kind of Blue by Miles Davis was the most successful album on the UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart in 1999, spending a total of 19 weeks at number one.

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. 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. 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.

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. Global Television's Salsa Fever! compilation was number one for eight consecutive weeks in the summer, while Eric Clapton's compilation Blues was the second most successful single-artist album of the year, with four weeks at number one. Four more albums spent three weeks each at number one in 1999: His Definitive Greatest Hits by B. B. King, When I Look in Your Eyes by Diana Krall, and the compilations The Very Best of Latin Jazz 2 and The Only Jazz Album You'll Ever Need.

Chart history

Eric Clapton spent four weeks at number one on the UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart in 1999 with Blues.

His Definitive Greatest Hits by B. B. King spent three consecutive weeks atop the chart between 25 April and 15 May.

Diana Krall's fifth studio album When I Look in Your Eyes was number one for three weeks in 1999.

Billie Holiday's greatest hits album The Very Best of Billie Holiday spent two weeks at number one during October 1999.

Issue date	Album	Artist(s)	Record label(s)	Ref.
3 January	Kind of Blue	Miles Davis	Columbia
10 January
17 January
24 January
31 January
7 February
14 February	Talkin' Verve: Soundwaves Series Sampler 1	various artists	Verve
21 February
28 February	Blues Blues Blues	Jimmy Rogers	Atlantic
7 March	Kind of Blue	Miles Davis	Columbia
14 March	The Very Best of Latin Jazz	various artists	Global Television
21 March	Kind of Blue	Miles Davis	Columbia
28 March	Traveling Miles	Cassandra Wilson	Blue Note
4 April	Kind of Blue	Miles Davis	Columbia
11 April
18 April
25 April	His Definitive Greatest Hits	B. B. King	UMTV
2 May
9 May
16 May	The Very Best of Latin Jazz 2	various artists	Global Television
23 May
30 May
6 June	When I Look in Your Eyes	Diana Krall	Verve
13 June	The Very Best of Jazz Funk	various artists	Global Television
20 June	Blues	Eric Clapton	Polydor
27 June
4 July
11 July	Mundo Latino	various artists	Columbia
18 July	Blues	Eric Clapton	Polydor
25 July	Salsa Fever!	various artists	Global Television
1 August
8 August
15 August
22 August
29 August
5 September
12 September
19 September	Kind of Blue	Miles Davis	Columbia
26 September
3 October	The Very Best of Billie Holiday	Billie Holiday	Verve
10 October
17 October	Kind of Blue	Miles Davis	Columbia
24 October
31 October
7 November
14 November
21 November
28 November	The Only Jazz Album You'll Ever Need	various artists	RCA Victor
5 December
12 December	When I Look in Your Eyes	Diana Krall	Verve
19 December
26 December	The Only Jazz Album You'll Ever Need	various artists	RCA Victor

See also

• 1999 in British music

External links

• Official Jazz & Blues Albums Chart at the Official Charts Company