List of UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart number ones of 2006

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 2006, 52 charts were published with ten albums at number one. Michael Bublé's fourth studio album It's Time was the first number-one album of the year, spending the first five weeks of the year atop the chart at the end of a 13-week run starting in 2005. Frank, the debut album by Amy Winehouse, was the last number-one album of the year, reaching the top spot in its 95th week on the chart.

The Nina Simone compilation The Very Best of Nina Simone spent 27 weeks in total at number one on the UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart in 2006, including a run of 23 consecutive weeks.

The most successful album on the UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart in 2006 was The Very Best of Nina Simone, a greatest hits album by Nina Simone, which spent a total of 27 weeks atop the chart over three spells, the longest of which was 23 consecutive weeks between May and October. Norah Jones spent six weeks at number one with her first album Come Away with Me, plus another week with its follow-up Feels Like Home. Michael Bublé had two number-one albums during 2006, with It's Time and Caught in the Act spending five weeks each atop the chart. The Very Best of Nina Simone finished 2006 as the 40th best-selling album of the year in the UK.

Chart history

Michael Bublé was number one for the first ten weeks of 2006 with two albums: It's Time and Caught in the Act.

Norah Jones also topped the chart with two different releases during 2006: Come Away with Me for five weeks and Feels Like Home for one.

Madeline Peyroux spent three consecutive weeks at number one during November with her fourth studio album, Half the Perfect World.

Key

†	Indicates best-selling jazz/blues album of 2006

Issue date	Album	Artist(s)	Record label(s)	Ref.
1 January	It's Time	Michael Bublé	Reprise
8 January
15 January
22 January
29 January
5 February	Caught in the Act
12 February
19 February
26 February
5 March
12 March	Come Away with Me	Norah Jones	Parlophone
19 March
26 March
2 April
9 April
16 April
23 April	The Collection	Curtis Stigers	Concord
30 April	Feels Like Home	Norah Jones	Blue Note
7 May	The Very Best of Nina Simone †	Nina Simone	RCA/UCJ
14 May
21 May
28 May
4 June
11 June
18 June
25 June
2 July
9 July
16 July
23 July
30 July
6 August
13 August
20 August
27 August
3 September
10 September
17 September
24 September
1 October
8 October
15 October	From This Moment On	Diana Krall	Verve
22 October
29 October	The Very Best of Nina Simone †	Nina Simone	RCA/UCJ
5 November	Half the Perfect World	Madeleine Peyroux	Rounder
12 November
19 November
26 November	Bolton Swings Sinatra: The Second Time Around	Michael Bolton	Concord
3 December
10 December	The Very Best of Nina Simone †	Nina Simone	RCA/UCJ
17 December
24 December
31 December	Frank	Amy Winehouse	Island

See also

• 2006 in British music

External links

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