ARLINGTON, TEXAS – NOVEMBER 23: Dolly Parton performs during halftime in the game between the … [+]
Dolly Parton is enjoying perhaps the best week of her career on Billboard’s albums charts. The singer-songwriter’s new full-length Rockstar arrives on several rankings of the top-performing titles in the U.S., bringing the superstar to heights she’s never seen before on a number of tallies.
Rockstar hits No. 1 on a trio of Billboard charts this week. Impressively, the title marks Parton’s first leader on all three lists.
Parton earns her first No. 1 this week on the Top Album Sales chart, the weekly ranking of the bestselling full-lengths in America. Rockstar opens atop the list with just under 118,300 copies purchased, according to data shared by Luminate. She outsells the No. 2 title, Enhypen’s Orange Blood, by more than 30,000 copies.
Of course, since Rockstar is the best-selling album in the United States, it also makes sense that it would rise to the top of whichever genre-specific tally Billboard fits it into. The set was marketed as Parton’s first rock album, and thus it lands on a pair of tallies that only include that style.
Rockstar immediately debuts at No. 1 on both the Top Rock & Alternative Albums and Top Rock Albums charts. It marks not only Parton’s first champion on both rock-only lists, but her first appearance.
For a few days after it was first released more than a week ago, it looked like Rockstar had a shot at conquering the Billboard 200, the all-encompassing ranking of the most-consumed albums in the U.S.—including streams. Instead, it arrives at No. 3, which is still a new high point for Parton.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2023/12/01/dolly-parton-hits-no-1-for-the-first-time-on-three-billboard-charts/