Dolly Parton Returns to Billboard 200 Top 5, Notching Second-Highest-Charting Album Ever
Dolly Parton ’s best-of collection Ultimate Dolly Parton re-enters the Billboard 200 albums chart dated Sept.
5 at No.
5, marking the late icon’s fourth top 10-charted set and her second-highest-charting album ever.
Parton died on Aug.
25 at age 80 after a short battle with cancer .
The entertainer previously visited the top 10 with the all-star collaborations project Rockstar (No.
3 in 2023, her highest-charted album), Blue Smoke (No.
6 in 2014) and the collaborative album Trio (No.
6, in 1987) with Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris.
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112 in 2019.
Until this week, it hadn’t been on the chart since 2020.
In the Aug.
21-27 tracking week, which reflects less than three days of impact following the announcement of Parton’s death, Ultimate Dolly Parton earned 59,000 equivalent album units (up from a negligible sum in the previous week), largely driven by streaming activity of the songs on the album.
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