topped Drake and Taylor Swift this week, and from earlier this year. Sales of her album were No. 1 all-genre and among the best in country music in 2023.
Parton’s debuted at No. 3 on the 200, which includes sales, streams and more.Her previous best on that all-genre chart was No. 6, reached in 1987 and 2014.An overwhelming majority of Parton’s 128,000 equivalent album units was pure sales.
A tweet from Charts points out that Rockstar is the No. 1 selling album of the week, ahead of albums by Swift and Korean boyband Enhypen.
Drake and Swift’s strong streaming numbers gave them the edge on the 200 this week.
Outlets like point out that of Parton’s 128K EAUs, 118,500 were pure sales. For comparison, when Wallen dropped last winter, 111,500 of his 501K unites were pure sales.
The success of Parton’s coincided with a massive media push that, over the last month, included dozens of interviews in print, online and on television, and a Thanksgiving Day performance during halftime of the NFL game on CBS.
Some people wondered if would land at No. 1 on the 200. Parton fell short there, but she did top the Country Albums chart for the week, marking her first No. 1 for a non-holiday album since in 2016.
For the week, Drake’s was No. 1 with 145K EAUs and Swift’s 1 was No. 2 with 138K.
Dolly Parton Performs In a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleading Outfit
Dolly Parton in the iconic Dallas Cowboys’ cheerleader uniform during halftime of an NFL game between the Washington Commanders and Dallas Cowboys on Thursday (Nov. 23) in Dallas, Texas.
See Dolly Parton’s Longtime Nashville Home
Dolly Parton and Carl Dean owned this 4,795 square-foot residence in Nashville from 1980 until 1996. While it’s not the lavish mansion one might expect one of the biggest country stars of all time to have lived in, it’s a beautiful home that’s also a one-of-a-kind piece of country music history.
It most recently sold in December of 2021 after spending 12 years on and off the market, finally selling for $849,000.
Built in 1941. the house features four bedrooms and three bathrooms, and the wooded, 2.4-acre property also features a detached storage building. Amenities in the stucco home also include an eat-in kitchen, carport, covered porch and patio, deck, a master bedroom with a walk-in closet, a great room large enough for plenty of games and entertainment and dual heating and cooling units.