Most weeks at No.1 on the US Traditional Jazz Albums chart

Since making its chart-topping debut on Billboard’s Traditional Jazz Albums countdown on 26 February 2005, It’s Time by Michael Bublé (Canada/Italy) has registered 79 non-consecutive weeks at No.1.

Bublé’s fourth studio album spent its 79th week at No.1 on 10 February 2007, completing a fourth separate spell at the top (eight weeks from 26 February 2005 to 16 April 2005; 27 weeks from 30 April 2005 to 29 October 2005; 37 weeks from 14 January 2006 to 23 September 2006; seven weeks from 30 December 2006 to 10 February 2007).

After falling to No.2 on 17 February 2007 (the album’s 104th chart week), Billboard amended its qualification criteria for Traditional Jazz Albums and It’s Time was removed from the chart. After another change to the rules, it was allowed to return to the countdown (at No.3) on 18 January 2020 for a 105th chart week, and it has remained in the Top 5 ever since, posting a 129th week (at No.3, behind Frank Sinatra’s Ultimate Sinatra and Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue) on the chart dated 4 July 2020.

Ultimate Sinatra had registered 66 weeks at No.1 as of 4 Jul 2020 and could challenge It’s Time for the longest-running chart-topper later in 2020.

It’s Time, the first of eight No.1s for Bublé on Traditional Jazz Albums, features the singles “Home”, “Feeling Good” and “Save the Last Dance for Me”.

Traditional Jazz Albums – not to be confused with Billboard’s Jazz Albums and Contemporary Jazz Albums charts – has featured artists such as Louis Armstrong, Chris Botti, Nat ‘King’ Cole, Harry Connick, Jr., Norah Jones and Diana Krall. The chart was inaugurated on 12 November 1983.