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

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

| Issue date | Album | Artist(s) | Record label(s) |
| 1 January | The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac | Fleetwood Mac | Columbia |
| 8 January | The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac | Fleetwood Mac | Columbia |
| 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 | The Ultimate Collection | Ella Fitzgerald | UCJ |
| 26 March | The Ultimate Collection | Ella Fitzgerald | UCJ |
| 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 | Delta Kream | The Black Keys | Nonesuch |
| 4 June | Delta Kream | The Black Keys | Nonesuch |
| 11 June | Delta Kream | The Black Keys | Nonesuch |
| 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 | Aquarius | Toby Lee | Lee |
| 23 July | Champions: Rare Miles from the Complete Jack Johnson Sessions | Miles Davis | Sony |
| 30 July | Yellow | Emma-Jean Thackray | Warp |
| 6 August | Yellow | Emma-Jean Thackray | Warp |
| 13 August | Yellow | Emma-Jean Thackray | Warp |
| 20 August | Yellow | Emma-Jean Thackray | Warp |
| 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 | BMG |
| 1 October | The Blues Album | Joanne Shaw Taylor | KTBA |
| 8 October | Love for Sale | Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga | Interscope |
| 15 October | Love for Sale | Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga | Interscope |
| 22 October | Love for Sale | Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga | Interscope |
| 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 | Still Rising: The Collection | Gregory Porter | Decca |
| 26 November | Still Rising: The Collection | Gregory Porter | Decca |
| 3 December | Still Rising: The Collection | Gregory Porter | Decca |
| 10 December | Still Rising: The Collection | Gregory Porter | Decca |
| 17 December | Still Rising: The Collection | Gregory Porter | Decca |
| 24 December | Still Rising: The Collection | Gregory Porter | Decca |
| 31 December | Still Rising: The Collection | Gregory Porter | Decca |