Dolly Parton Returns to Hot Country Songs Top 10 With These 2 Hits

Dolly Parton returns to the top 10 on Billboard ’s Hot Country Songs chart (dated Sept.

5) as “Jolene” and “9 to 5” reenter at Nos.

7 and 8, respectively.

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“Jolene,” a Hot Country Songs No.

1 in 1974, totaled 10.2 million official U.S. streams (up 583% week over week), 6.2 million in radio airplay audience and 15,000 sold Aug.

21-27, the latter two metrics up from nominal sums, according to Luminate.

“9 to 5,” a chart leader in 1981, delivered 9.5 million streams (up 520%), 7.2 million in radio audience and 14,000 sold.

Four more Parton titles return at Nos.

11, 12, 14 and 21, respectively: “Islands in the Stream” with Kenny Rogers (1983), “I Will Always Love You” (1974), “Here You Come Again” (1977) and “Coat of Many Colors” (1971).

All six songs except for “Coat of Many Colors,” a No.

4 hit, reached the top in their initial releases.

Meanwhile, Parton’s span in the Hot Country Songs top 10 expands, by more than 20 years, to 58 years and seven months since she first ranked in the region with “The Last Thing on My Mind,” with Porter Wagoner, in February 1968.