List of UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart number ones of 2019

Rory Gallagher spent ten weeks atop the UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart in 2019 with the compilation Blues, including the year's longest run of eight weeks.

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 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. 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.

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

Chart history

Here's to Christmas, the debut album by former footballer Chris Kamara, spent the last six weeks of 2019 at number one.

Releases by Van Morrison (top), Miles Davis (second from top), Joanne Shaw Taylor (second from bottom) and Beth Hart (bottom) each spent three weeks at number one during 2019.

Issue date	Album	Artist(s)	Record label(s)	Ref.
4 January	The Prophet Speaks	Van Morrison	Exile
11 January
18 January
25 January	Kind of Blue	Miles Davis	Columbia
1 February	Survivor Blues	Walter Trout	Provogue
8 February
15 February	Kind of Blue	Miles Davis	Columbia
22 February	Fyah	Theon Cross	Gearbox
1 March	Nobody Told Me	John Mayall	Forty Below
8 March	Sweet Release	Reese Wynans & Friends	Provogue
15 March	Kind of Blue	Miles Davis	Columbia
22 March	Reckless Heart	Joanne Shaw Taylor	Silvertone
29 March
5 April	How High	CC Smugglers	Cabin
12 April	Reckless Heart	Joanne Shaw Taylor	Silvertone
19 April	The Big Bad Blues	Billy Gibbons	Snakefarm
26 April	Evans in England	Bill Evans	Resonance
3 May	You Can't Steal My Joy	Ezra Collective	Enter the Jungle
10 May
17 May
24 May	Baby, Please Come Home	Jimmie Vaughan	TLMC
31 May	40	Stray Cats	Mascot
7 June	Blues	Rory Gallagher	UMC
14 June
21 June
28 June
5 July
12 July
19 July
26 July
2 August	Grits, Beans and Greens: The Lost Fontana Studio Session 1969	Tubby Hayes Quartet	Fontana
9 August	Blume	Nérija	Domino
16 August	Grits, Beans and Greens: The Lost Fontana Studio Session 1969	Tubby Hayes Quartet	Fontana
23 August	Down to the River	The Allman Betts Band	BMG
30 August	Blues	Rory Gallagher	UMC
6 September
13 September	Valve Bone Woe	Chrissie Hynde	BMG
20 September	Light It Up	Kris Barras Band	Provogue
27 September	Kill or Be Kind	Samantha Fish	Rounder
4 October	War in My Mind	Beth Hart	Provogue
11 October
18 October
25 October	High Water II	The Magpie Salute
1 November	True Love: A Celebration of Cole Porter	Harry Connick Jr.	Verve
8 November	I Shouldn't Be Telling You This	Jeff Goldblum, The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra	Decca
15 November	True Love: A Celebration of Cole Porter	Harry Connick Jr.	Verve
22 November	Here's to Christmas	Chris Kamara	So What?
29 November
6 December
13 December
20 December
27 December

See also

• 2019 in British music

External links

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