List of UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart number ones of 2015

Gregory Porter's third album Liquid Spirit spent a total of 22 weeks atop the UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart in 2015, including the first 12 weeks of the year.

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 2015, 52 charts were published with six albums at number one. The first number-one album of the year was Gregory Porter's third album Liquid Spirit, which spent most of the first three months of the year atop the chart, completing a run of 15 consecutive weeks starting in December 2014. Liquid Spirit was also the last number-one album of the year, returning to the top spot for the final week of 2015.

The most successful album on the UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart in 2015 was Liquid Spirit, which spent a total of 22 weeks at number one over seven separate spells, the longest of which was the first 12 weeks of the year. Seasick Steve's compilation Walkin' Man: The Best of Seasick Steve spent 11 weeks atop the chart, while the musician spent a further four weeks at number one with his seventh studio album, Sonic Soul Surfer. The self-titled debut album by Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats was number one for nine weeks, while The Very Best of Glenn Miller was number one for four weeks. Liquid Spirit finished 2015 as the 37th best-selling album of the year in the UK.

Chart history

Seasick Steve spent a total of 15 weeks atop the chart in 2015 – 11 weeks with Walkin' Man: The Best of Seasick Steve and four with Sonic Soul Surfer.

Nathaniel Rateliff spent nine weeks at number one with the first album credited to his band the Night Sweats, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats.

The Glenn Miller compilation The Very Best Of returned to the number-one spot for five weeks in the summer of 2015.

Key

†	Indicates best-selling jazz/blues album of 2015

Issue date	Album	Artist(s)	Record label(s)	Ref.
4 January	Liquid Spirit †	Gregory Porter	Blue Note
11 January
18 January
25 January
1 February
8 February
15 February
22 February
1 March
8 March
15 March
22 March
29 March	Sonic Soul Surfer	Seasick Steve	Caroline
5 April
12 April
19 April
26 April	Walkin' Man: The Best of Seasick Steve		Rhino
3 May
10 May
17 May	Liquid Spirit †	Gregory Porter	Blue Note
24 May	Walkin' Man: The Best of Seasick Steve	Seasick Steve	Rhino
31 May	Liquid Spirit †	Gregory Porter	Blue Note
7 June
14 June	The Very Best of Glenn Miller	Glenn Miller	Sony
21 June
28 June
5 July
10 July
17 July	Liquid Spirit †	Gregory Porter	Blue Note
24 July	Walkin' Man: The Best of Seasick Steve	Seasick Steve	Rhino
31 July
7 August
14 August
21 August
28 August
4 September
11 September	Liquid Spirit †	Gregory Porter	Blue Note
18 September
25 September
2 October	Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats	Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats	Concord
9 October
16 October
23 October
30 October	Battle Scars	Walter Trout	Provogue
6 November	Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats	Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats	Concord
13 November
20 November
27 November	Liquid Spirit †	Gregory Porter	Blue Note
4 December
11 December	Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats	Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats	Concord
18 December
25 December	Liquid Spirit †	Gregory Porter	Blue Note

See also

• 2015 in British music

External links

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