{"id":602123,"date":"2026-09-01T01:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T01:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/602123\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T01:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T01:30:21","slug":"dolly-parton-returns-to-billboard-200-albums-chart-top-5-after-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/602123\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton Returns to Billboard 200 Albums Chart Top 5 After Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDolly Parton<\/a>\u2019s best-of collection Ultimate Dolly Parton re-enters the Billboard 200<\/a> albums chart dated Sept. 5 at No. 5, marking the late icon\u2019s fourth top 10-charted set and her second-highest-charting album ever.<\/p>\n

\n\tParton died on Aug. 25 at age 80 after a short battle with cancer<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n

\n\tUltimate Dolly Parton was released in 2003 and originally peaked at No. 112 in 2019. Until this week, it hadn\u2019t 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 20-track Ultimate Dolly Parton includes familiar Parton favorites such as \u201cJolene,\u201d \u201cI Will Always Love You,\u201d \u201cHere You Come Again,\u201d \u201c9 to 5\u201d and \u201cIslands In the Stream\u201d (with Kenny Rogers). Many of the songs on this album are shared among other Parton projects \u2014 hits compilations and studio albums. For chart purposes, songs shared across an artist\u2019s albums have their streaming equivalent album units and track equivalent album units assigned to whichever of those albums sells the most, by pure album sales, in a given week. In the latest tracking week, Ultimate Dolly Parton was the legend\u2019s best-selling album, with 7,000 copies sold.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Billboard 200<\/a> chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid\/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Sept. 5, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on\u00a0Billboard\u2018s website on Sept. 1. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton\u2019s best-of collection Ultimate Dolly Parton re-enters the Billboard 200 albums chart dated Sept. 5 at No.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2644,2645,146,10880,85,46,1098],"class_list":["post-602123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-billboard-200","tag-chart-beat","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-country","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}