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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 2020, 52 charts were published with 33 albums at number one. The first number-one album of the year was I Shouldn't Be Telling You This, the second album by actor Jeff Goldblum and his jazz band, the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra.[2] The last number-one album of the year was The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac by Fleetwood Mac featuring songs from their tenure with guitarist Peter Green.[3]
The most successful album on the UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart in 2020 was Man of the World: The Anthology 1968–88, a greatest hits album by Peter Green, which topped the chart for six weeks in the second half of the year following Green's death in July 2020.[4] Kind of Blue by Miles Davis was the second most successful, returning to the top of the chart for a total of five weeks throughout the year.[5] Rory Gallagher also spent five weeks at number one during 2020 – three weeks with the live album Check Shirt Wizard: Live in '77,[6] two with the compilation Blues.[7] Seven more albums topped the charts for two weeks each during the year.[8][9][10][11][12][13][14]
Issue date | Album | Artist(s) | Record label(s) | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
3 January | I Shouldn't Be Telling You This | Jeff Goldblum, The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra | Decca | [15] |
10 January | Blues | Rory Gallagher | UMC | [16] |
17 January | Kind of Blue | Miles Davis | Columbia | [17] |
24 January | Blues | Rory Gallagher | UMC | [18] |
31 January | Suite for Max Brown | Jeff Parker | International Anthem | [19] |
7 February | War in My Mind | Beth Hart | Provogue | [20] |
14 February | We're New Again: A Re-Imagining | Gil Scott-Heron, Makaya McCraven | XL | [21] |
21 February | Live from London | Gary Moore | Provogue | [22] |
28 February | From This Place | Pat Metheny | Nonesuch | [23] |
6 March | That's What I Heard | Robert Cray | Nozzle | [24] |
13 March | Check Shirt Wizard: Live in '77 | Rory Gallagher | UMC | [25] |
20 March | [26] | |||
27 March | Rejoice | Tony Allen, Hugh Masekela | World Circuit | [27] |
3 April | The Women Who Raised Me | Kandace Springs | UCJ | [28] |
10 April | Check Shirt Wizard: Live in '77 | Rory Gallagher | UMC | [29] |
17 April | Kind of Blue | Miles Davis | Columbia | [30] |
24 April | Rejoice | Tony Allen, Hugh Masekela | World Circuit | [31] |
1 May | Good Souls Better Angels | Lucinda Williams | Highway 20 | [32] |
8 May | [33] | |||
15 May | The Very Best of Glenn Miller | Glenn Miller | Sony | [34] |
22 May | To the Earth | Dinosaur | Edition | [35] |
29 May | Frank | Amy Winehouse | Island | [36] |
5 June | Kind of Blue | Miles Davis | Columbia | [37] |
12 June | Blues with Friends | Dion | KTBA | [38] |
19 June | Pick Me Up Off the Floor | Norah Jones | EMI | [39] |
26 June | [40] | |||
3 July | Riding with the King | B. B. King, Eric Clapton | Reprise | [41] |
10 July | Blues with Friends | Dion | KTBA | [42] |
17 July | RoundAgain | Joshua Redman Quartet | Nonesuch | [43] |
24 July | Just Coolin' | Art Blakey, The Jazz Messengers | Blue Note | [44] |
31 July | Love & Peace | Seasick Steve | Contagious | [45] |
7 August | [46] | |||
14 August | A New Day Now | Joe Bonamassa | Provogue | [47] |
21 August | [48] | |||
28 August | Source | Nubya Garcia | Concord | [49] |
4 September | Ordinary Madness | Walter Trout | Provogue | [50] |
11 September | Sings Totally Blond | Michael Bublé | Metro | [51] |
18 September | [52] | |||
25 September | Man of the World: The Anthology 1968–88 | Peter Green | Sanctuary | [53] |
2 October | This Dream of You | Diana Krall | UCJ | [54] |
9 October | Man of the World: The Anthology 1968–88 | Peter Green | Sanctuary | [55] |
16 October | [56] | |||
23 October | [57] | |||
30 October | Blue Note Re:Imagined | various artists | Decca | [58] |
6 November | Man of the World: The Anthology 1968–88 | Peter Green | Sanctuary | [59] |
13 November | [60] | |||
20 November | 1995 | Kruder & Dorfmeister | G-Stone | [61] |
27 November | Salute to the Sun | Matthew Halsall | Gondwana | [62] |
4 December | Straight to You: Live | Kenny Wayne Shepherd | Provogue | [63] |
11 December | Kind of Blue | Miles Davis | Columbia | [64] |
18 December | [65] | |||
25 December | The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac | Fleetwood Mac | [66] |
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