The ''Billboard'' Smooth Jazz Airplay chart measures airplay spins on 15

smooth jazz Smooth jazz is commercially oriented crossover jazz music. Although often described as a "genre", it is a debatable and highly controversial subject in jazz music circles. As a radio format, however, smooth jazz radio became the successor to e ...

radio stations in the United States.

Chart history

Artists with most number-one hits

;Artists with most Smooth Jazz Airplay No. 1s ''(as of May 31, 2025)'' :21 –

Boney James Boney James (born James Oppenheim September 1, 1961) is an American saxophonist, recording artist, songwriter and record producer. He is a four-time Grammy Award nominee (Best Pop Instrumental Album, 2001, 2004, 2014 and Best Traditional R&B Per ...

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Gerald Albright Gerald Albright (born August 30, 1957) is an American jazz saxophonist. He earned Grammys for the albums ''24/7 (Gerald Albright and Norman Brown album), 24/7'' in 2012 and ''Slam Dunk'' in 2014 and was nominated for ''New Beginnings (Gerald Albr ...

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Richard Elliot Richard Elliot (born January 16, 1960) is an American saxophonist. He was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards for '' Summer Horns''. Biography Early life Elliot was born in the Scot ...

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Brian Culbertson Brian Culbertson (born January 12, 1973) is an American smooth jazz/ R&B/funk musician and producer. His instruments include the synthesizer, piano and trombone. Early life and career Culbertson was born in Decatur, Illinois. As a child, he wa ...

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Rick Braun Rick Braun (born July 6, 1955) is an American smooth jazz trumpet, flugelhorn, trombone and keyboards player, vocalist, composer, and record producer. Early life and education Braun was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania and attended Dieruff High ...

:11 – Paul Brown :11 –

Paul Hardcastle Paul Louis Hardcastle (born 10 December 1957) is an English composer, musician, record producer, songwriter, radio presenter and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known for his song " 19", which went to number one on the UK Singles Chart in 1 ...

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Dave Koz David Stephen Koz (born March 27, 1963) is an American saxophonist, composer, record producer, and radio personality based in Los Angeles, California. Early life Dave Koz was born in Encino, California, to Jewish parents: Norman, a dermatologis ...

:11 – Cindy Bradley :11 –

Vincent Ingala Vincent Ingala (born December 10, 1992) is a contemporary/urban jazz multi-instrumentalist. The tenor saxophone is his main instrument of choice, though he plays drums, guitar, piano, and sings as well. He has released eight albums, his most rece ...

:10 – Nick Colionne :10 –

Euge Groove Steven Eugene Grove (born November 27, 1962), better known as Euge Groove, is an American smooth jazz saxophonist. Early life and career Born in Hagerstown, Maryland, he graduated from the University of Miami School of Music in 1984. Grove did ...

:10 – Chris Standring :10 – Adam Hawley

Songs at number-one for at least five weeks

Women with number-ones

''(Debut date precedes name)'' * 2007 Mar 03 –

Mindi Abair Mindi Abair ( ; born May 23, 1969) is an American saxophonist, vocalist, author.. Her solo career has produced ten No. 1 radio singles, two No. 1 Billboard Jazz CDs, and four more solo CDs that have landed No. 5 and above on the ''Billboard'' Co ...

* 2007 Dec 08 –

Candy Dulfer Candy Dulfer (born 19 September 1969) is a Dutch jazz and pop saxophonist. She is the daughter of jazz saxophonist Hans Dulfer. She began playing at age six and founded her band Funky Stuff when she was fourteen. Her debut album '' Saxuality'' ...

* 2008 May 24 –

Jessy J Jessica Arellano (born December 20, 1982) known professionally as Jessy J, is an American saxophonist. Biography Jessy J was born Jessica Arellano on December 20, 1982, in Portland, Oregon, and raised in Hemet, California. Of Mexican-Ameri ...

* 2010 Feb 13 –

Sade Sade may refer to: People * Marquis de Sade (1740–1814), French aristocrat, writer, and libertine; namesake of the word ''sadism'' * Sade (singer) (born 1959, Helen Folasade Adu), British Nigerian musician and lead singer of the eponymous band * ...

* 2011 Sep 10 – Cindy Bradley * 2013 Jun 15 – Althea Rene * 2016 Feb 27 –

Lindsey Webster Lindsey Webster (born January 19, 1988) is an American jazz, R&B, and pop singer. Her first single, "Fool Me Once", reached number one on the Smooth Jazz chart at ''Billboard'' magazine (2016), making her the first vocalist since Sade's 2010 "So ...

* 2017 Apr 08 – Kayla Waters * 2018 Jun 09 – Magdalena Chovancova * 2018 Jul 21 – Ragan Whiteside * 2019 Apr 27 –

Keiko Matsui is a Japanese keyboardist and composer, specializing in smooth jazz and New-age music. Biography Keiko Matsui was born in Tokyo, Japan. Her mother, Emiko, took her to her first piano lesson in the June following her sixth birthday. Japanese t ...

* 2019 Apr 27 –

Gretchen Parlato Gretchen Parlato (born February 11, 1976) is an American jazz singer. She has performed and recorded with musicians such as Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Kenny Barron, Esperanza Spalding, Terence Blanchard, Marcus Miller and Lionel Loueke. Pa ...

* 2019 Jun 01 – Kim Scott * 2019 Nov 02 –

Aubrey Logan Aubrey Michelle Logan (born January 16, 1988) is an American pop and jazz singer and trombone soloist. Logan won the Audience's Choice Award and the Jury's First Place Award at the 2009 Shure-Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. She was also an ...

* 2019 Nov 09 –

Joyce Cooling Joyce Cooling is an American jazz guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. She has performed with Joe Henderson, Stan Getz, Mark Murphy, Al Jarreau, and Charlie Byrd. Music career Cooling was born into a musical family. Her mother, a music teacher, ...

* 2020 Jan 25 – Lisa Addeo * 2020 Apr 18 – Paula Atherton * 2020 Jun 20 – Jazmin Ghent * 2021 Nov 27 –

Pamela Williams Pamela Williams (born 1963) is an American smooth jazz saxophonist. Her music employs nu Jazz, funk, R&B, house, Latin and pop. Biography Williams grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which was also the adopted hometown of an early influenc ...

* 2022 Oct 15 – Lauran Beluzo * 2022 Nov 05 – Carol Albert * 2023 Oct 28 – Phylicia Rae * 2024 Aug 17 – Catie Waters * 2025 Mar 22 – Chelsey Green

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* '' The Weather Channel Presents: The Best of Smooth Jazz'' * '' The Weather Channel Presents: Smooth Jazz II''

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