airplay data JazzWeek Smooth Album Chart Dec. 19, 2005 powered by TW LW 2W Peak Artist Release Label TP LP +/- Weeks Stations Adds 1 1 1 1 Euge Groove Just Feels Right Narada Jazz 583 637 -54 18 32 0 2 5 6 2 Brian Simpson It’s All Good Rendezvous 549 522 27 17 33 1 3 3 3 3 Walter Beasley For Her Heads Up 540 560 -20 30 33 1 4 2 2 1 Brian Culbertson It’s On Tonight GRP/Verve 532 579 -47 23 34 0 5 6 4 1 Richard Elliot Metro Blue Artizen 532 517 15 27 33 0 6 7 7 5 Marion Meadows Player’s Club Heads Up 511 505 6 57 32 0 7 4 5 4 Rick Braun Shining Star [Single] Artizen 502 548 -46 16 30 0 8 8 8 1 Nils Pacific Coast Highway Baja 469 482 -13 46 33 0 9 9 11 9 Chris Botti To Love Again: The Duets Columbia 357 375 -18 9 31 0 10 12 10 1 Michael Lington Stay With Me Rendezvous 329 343 -14 57 27 0 11 13 13 2 Boney James Pure Warner Bros. 323 334 -11 57 31 0 12 11 12 5 Ken Navarro Love Coloured Soul Positive Music 319 346 -27 43 29 0 13 16 16 13 Kim Waters Steppin’ Out [Single] Shanachie 306 294 12 18 27 0 14 10 9 1 Paul Hardcastle 4 Trippin ‘N’ Rhythm 301 352 -51 23 32 0 15 14 14 10 David Pack The Secret of Movin’ On Peak/Concord 291 306 -15 21 32 0 16 15 17 15 Najee My Point Of View Heads Up 279 296 -17 22 29 0 17 19 20 15 Chieli Minucci The Juice [Single] Shanachie 255 267 -12 28 22 0 18 18 18 18 Boz Scaggs Fade Into Light Virgin/EMI 253 272 -19 4 28 0 19 21 22 2 Paul Taylor Nightlife Peak 241 242 -1 40 27 0 20 20 15 1 Kenny G At Last...The Duets Album Arista 239 243 -4 52 32 0 21 22 19 4 Norman Brown West Coast Coolin’ Warner Bros. 216 241 -25 25 28 0 22 29 26 1 Wayman Tisdale Hang Time Rendezvous 214 184 30 57 31 0 23 17 23 1 Various Artists Forever, For Always, For Luther GRP 212 280 -68 52 30 0 24 24 24 22 Soul Ballet She Rides [Single] 215 203 216 -13 21 22 0 25 23 21 4 Mindi Abair Come As You Are GRP 201 231 -30 57 25 0 26 25 25 24 Various Artists Def Jazz GRP 191 209 -18 17 20 0 27 31 39 27 Gregg Karukas Looking Up V2 175 161 14 13 29 12 28 52 81 28 Anita Baker Christmas Fantasy Blue Note/EMI 165 95 70 4 20 6 29 39 42 13 3rd Force Driving Force Higher Octave 161 139 22 45 19 0 30 27 38 26 Kirk Whalum Performs The Babyface Songbook Rendezvous 156 188 -32 13 17 0 31 28 29 22 Nelson Rangell My American Songbook Vol. 1 Koch 156 187 -31 41 20 0 32 30 28 2 Steve Cole Spin Narada Jazz 154 174 -20 39 26 0 33 26 31 15 Warren Hill Pop Jazz Pop Jazz/Native Language 153 198 -45 21 19 0 34 35 34 16 Michael Buble It’s Time 143/Reprise 144 147 -3 22 12 0 35 38 41 15 Jonathan Butler Jonathan Rendezvous 142 139 3 28 16 0 36 33 36 33 Marc Antoine Modern Times Rendezvous 137 151 -14 18 14 0 37 37 33 4 Tim Bowman This Is What I Hear Liquid 8 137 141 -4 49 25 0 38 40 37 20 Raul Midon State Of Mind Manhattan 134 138 -4 26 10 0 39 32 27 11 Jeff Golub Temptation Narada Jazz 134 160 -26 23 14 0 40 42 30 3 Paul Brown Up Front GRP 129 129 0 52 30 0 41 34 35 5 Chuck Loeb When I’m WIth You Shanachie 128 151 -23 43 26 0 42 41 40 12 Kem Album II Universal/Motown 119 133 -14 22 17 0 43 55 54 1 Soul Ballet Dream Beat Dream 215 117 89 28 57 29 0 44 36 32 14 Anita Baker My Everything Blue Note 116 146 -30 22 22 0 45 45 44 4 Euge Groove Livin’ Large EMI 115 115 0 57 25 0 46 46 48 14 Jeff Lorber Flipside Narada Jazz 114 109 5 45 16 0 47 44 46 1 Gerald Albright Kickin’ It Up GRP/VMG/UMG 106 118 -12 57 25 0 48 53 50 5 George Benson Irreplaceable GRP/VMG/UMG 98 93 5 57 23 0 49 47 49 25 Daryl Hall & John Oates Our Kind Of Soul U-Watch 95 108 -13 22 16 0 50 51 52 25 The Ramsey Lewis Trio Time Flies Narada Jazz 92 97 -5 52 21 0 Most Added (first airplay detection) Increased Airplay Chartbound Gregg Karukas Looking Up (V2) +12 Anita Baker Christmas Fantasy (Blue Note/EMI) +70 Paul Brown The City (GRP/Verve) Anita Baker Christmas Fantasy (Blue Note/EMI) +6 Wayman Tisdale Hang Time (Rendezvous) +30 Mindi Abair I Can’t Wait For Christmas [Single] (GRP/VMG) Hiroshima Spirit Of The Season (Heads Up) Dr. John & The Lower 911 Sippiana Hericane (Blue Soul Ballet Dream Beat Dream (215) +28 Lizz Wright Dreaming Wide Awake (VMG) Note/EMI) +3 Brian Simpson It’s All Good (Rendezvous) +27 George Benson Best Of George Benson Live (GRP/UMG/VMG) Will Donato Winter Walkin’ (Winter Wonderland) 3rd Force Driving Force (Higher Octave) +22 Kim Waters All For Love (Shanachie) Andre Delano Full Circle (7th Note) (Generation) +3 Paul Brown The City (GRP/Verve) +17 Bob Baldwin All In A Days Work [Single] (215) Jane Monheit The Season (Epic/Sony BMG) +2 Will Donato Earth Shakin’ [Single] (Generation) Ricardo Scales Happy Holidays (Baysound) +2 Hiroshima Obon (Heads Up) jazzweek.com • Dec. 19, 2005 All monitored airplay data is owned by Mediaguide, Inc. ©2005 Mediaguide, Inc. JazzWeek 26.