List of UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart number ones of 2021

Gregory Porter spent the last eight weeks of 2021 atop the UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart with the greatest hits album Still Rising: The Collection.

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 2021, 53 charts were published with 30 albums at number one. The first number-one album of the year was The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac by Fleetwood Mac, which spent the first two weeks of the year atop the chart. The last number-one album of the year was Still Rising: The Collection, the first greatest hits album by Gregory Porter, for the last eight weeks of 2021.

The most successful album on the UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart in 2021 was Porter's Still Rising: The Collection, which spent eight straight weeks atop the chart. The second most successful albums were The Ultimate Collection, a greatest hits album by Ella Fitzgerald, and Delta Kream, the tenth studio album by The Black Keys, both of which spent five weeks at number one over multiple spells. Emma-Jean Thackray spent four weeks atop the UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart with her first full-length studio album Yellow, while Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga spent three weeks at number one with their second collaborative release, Love for Sale.

Chart history

Ella Fitzgerald's The Ultimate Collection spent five weeks at number one in 2021.

Delta Kream, the tenth album by The Black Keys, was also UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart number one for five weeks.

Emma-Jean Thackray topped three consecutive charts with her debut full-length album Yellow.

Issue date	Album	Artist(s)	Record label(s)	Ref.
1 January	The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac	Fleetwood Mac	Columbia
8 January
15 January	Blue Note Re:Imagined	various artists	Decca
22 January	Speak No Evil	Wayne Shorter	Blue Note
29 January	Time Outtakes	Dave Brubeck Quartet	Wienerworld
5 February	Tourist	St Germain	Blue Note
12 February	Kind of Blue	Miles Davis	Columbia
19 February	Somethin' Else	Cannonball Adderley	Blue Note
26 February	Blue Note Re:Imagined	various artists	Decca
5 March	Dark Matter	Moses Boyd	Exodus
12 March	The Ultimate Collection	Ella Fitzgerald	UCJ
19 March
26 March
2 April	Aspects	STR4TA	Brownswood
9 April	The Ultimate Collection	Ella Fitzgerald	UCJ
16 April	Moanin'	Art Blakey, The Jazz Messengers	Blue Note
23 April	The Ultimate Collection	Ella Fitzgerald	UCJ
30 April	Bring Backs	Alfa Mist	Anti-
7 May	How Blue Can You Get	Gary Moore	Provogue
14 May	Latest Record Project, Volume 1	Van Morrison	BMG
21 May	Delta Kream	The Black Keys	Nonesuch
28 May
4 June
11 June
18 June	Now Serving: Royal Tea Live from the Ryman	Joe Bonamassa	Provogue
25 June	Delta Kream	The Black Keys	Nonesuch
2 July	The Montreux Years	Nina Simone	BMG
9 July	Aquarius	Toby Lee	Lee
16 July
23 July	Champions: Rare Miles from the Complete Jack Johnson Sessions	Miles Davis	Sony
30 July	Yellow	Emma-Jean Thackray	Warp
6 August
13 August
20 August
27 August	Source	Nubya Garcia	Concord
3 September	Pure	Robben Ford	ear
10 September	Rory Gallagher	Rory Gallagher	UMC
17 September	Side-Eye NYC (V1.IV)	Pat Metheny	BMG
24 September	Mr. Luck: A Tribute to Jimmy Reed – Live at the Royal Albert Hall	Ronnie Wood
1 October	The Blues Album	Joanne Shaw Taylor	KTBA
8 October	Love for Sale	Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga	Interscope
15 October
22 October
29 October	A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle	John Coltrane	Impulse!
5 November	Time Clocks	Joe Bonamassa	Provogue
12 November	Still Rising: The Collection	Gregory Porter	Decca
19 November
26 November
3 December
10 December
17 December
24 December
31 December

See also

• 2021 in British music

External links

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