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Dolly Parton Scores The Biggest Album Debut Sales Week Of Her Career With ‘Rockstar’

<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Seven decades into her unmatched career&comma; global superstar Dolly Parton lands her biggest album debut ever as the 30-track&comma; star-studded <em>Rockstar<&sol;em> collection debuts at &num;1 on six different Billboard charts&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;countrymusicnewsblog&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;Dolly-Parton-Reveals-Album-Title-Release-Date-and-Track-List-for-Upcoming-Rock-Album-Rockstar&period;png" alt&equals;"Dolly Parton Reveals Album Title&comma; Release Date and Track List for Upcoming Rock Album Rockstar" class&equals;"wp-image-39631"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">With 127&comma;778 units sold in its inaugural week&comma; Parton’s <em>Rockstar<&sol;em> debuts at &num;1 on <em>Billboard Top Rock Albums&comma;<&sol;em> &num;1 on <em>Billboard Top Rock &amp&semi; Alternative Albums<&sol;em>&comma; &num;1 on <em>Billboard Top Country Albums<&sol;em>&comma; &num;1 on <em>Billboard Top Album Sales&comma; <&sol;em>&num;1 on<em> Billboard Top Current Album Sales&comma; <&sol;em>and &num;1 on<em> Billboard Independent Albums <&sol;em>charts&period; The album also debuted at &num;2 on <em>Billboard Vinyl Albums<&sol;em> and &num;2 on <em>Billboard Tastemaker Albums<&sol;em> charts&period; Released on Parton’s own Butterfly Records with worldwide distribution via Big Machine Label Group&comma; <em>Rockstar<&sol;em> joins Drake’s <em>For All The Dogs – Scary Hours Edition<&sol;em> and <a title&equals;"Taylor Swift" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;stubhub&period;prf&period;hn&sol;click&sol;camref&colon;1100ljXyr&sol;pubref&colon;WPSTSwift&sol;ar&colon;CMNBAutoLink&sol;destination&colon;https&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fwww&period;stubhub&period;com&percnt;2Ftaylor-swift-tickets&percnt;2F">Taylor Swift<&sol;a>’s <em>1989 &lpar;Taylor’s Version&rpar; <&sol;em>in the overall top 3&comma; marking Parton’s career-best rank on the all-genre list&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<&excl;--more-->&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><em>Rockstar <&sol;em>also becomes Parton’s biggest debut week ever and biggest sales week in 30 years&comma; since 1993’s Platinum-selling <em>Slow Dancing With The Moon <&sol;em>logged 50&comma;000 units in its second chart week&period; With its &num;1 debut on <em>Billboard Country Albums<&sol;em>&comma; the album also becomes Parton’s 48<sup>th<&sol;sup> top 10 entry on <em>Billboard Country Albums<&sol;em> and eighth &num;1&comma; extending the Rock &amp&semi; Roll and Country Music Hall of Famers’ record on that tally for most top 10 albums by a female artist&period; The album extends Parton’s run of &num;1s on <em>Billboard Country Albums <&sol;em>to 46 years—from 1977’s <em>Here You Come Again <&sol;em>to present—a record she claimed in 2020 with the &num;1 debut of <em>A Holly Dolly Christmas<&sol;em> and now furthers with<em> Rockstar<&sol;em>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Wow&comma; this is a big thrill&excl;” exclaims Parton&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I owe a thank you to the fans who have always been there for me&period; Their support made this achievement possible&period; I’d also like to thank my producer Kent Wells&comma; all the wonderful artists&comma; musicians&comma; and engineers who brought their talents to this project&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Parton’s <em>Rockstar <&sol;em>first-week worldwide sales have topped 143&comma;000 units&comma; highlighted with a top 5 debut in the UK&comma; Parton’s first top 10 debut in Germany&comma; a &num;1 debut in Canada on both Country Albums and Current Digital Album Sales chart&comma; a &num;2 debut in Canada on the Current Album Sales chart&comma; a &num;2 debut on the Digital Albums chart in Australia&comma; a &num;3 debut on the Country Albums chart in Australia&comma; a &num;2 debut in Switzerland&comma; and more ex-US debuts still to be announced&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Parton’s massive global campaign for<em> Rockstar <&sol;em>featured a halftime performance at the Dallas Cowboys Red Kettle Kickoff game on Thanksgiving Day&comma; where in advance of the performance&comma; Parton surprised Dallas Cowboys’ Charlotte Jones with a donation of &dollar;1 million dollars to the Salvation Army&period; Additionally&comma; Parton’s appearance in the game helped it become the third most-viewed regular-season game in NFL history with a 44 million viewership peak&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Words can’t describe how proud I am that Dolly trusted us to deliver her <em>Rockstar<&sol;em> vision&comma;” says Danny Nozell&comma; Parton’s longtime manager and CEO&sol;CTK Enterprises &amp&semi; NOZ Entertainment Soundstages&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I want to thank my Butterfly Records global marketing team of Kyle McClain&comma; Steve Ross&comma; John Zarling&comma; Kelly Ridgway&comma; Olly Rowland&comma; global publicist Marcel Pariseau&comma; and the teams at Marbaloo and TDS&period; I also want to recognize my entire CTK Enterprises staff for the sleepless nights bringing this vision to life&period; Additionally&comma; a thank you to the best partners in the world—Scott Borchetta&comma; Mike Rittberg&comma; Julian Raymond&comma; and the Big Machine family for their hard work and team effort&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Parton’s <em>Rockstar <&sol;em>project is available in multiple digital and physical versions&period; With ten options for retailers across the globe&comma; <em>Rockstar<&sol;em> is available in black&comma; gold&comma; clear&comma; red&comma; Smoky&comma; silver&comma; purple&comma; white&comma; pink&comma; and blue vinyl variants&period; Additionally&comma; a standard 2-disc CD&comma; UT Vols 2-disc CD &lpar;featuring a live version of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Rocky Top”&rpar;&comma; Dallas Cowboys 2-disc CD&comma; HSN exclusive 2-disc CD &lpar;featuring bonus tracks &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Hit Me With Your Best Shot&comma;” &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Mama Never Said&comma;” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Rockin’ It”&rpar;&comma; and a TalkShopLive exclusive double cassette offering are in the market&period; During the album’s release week&comma; Parton surprised fans with an exclusive digital download of the Rockstar album featuring two additional bonus tracks &lpar;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Two Tickets To Paradise” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Jolene” featuring Måneskin&rpar; via her website&period; Access digital and physical versions still available<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;u7061146&period;ct&period;sendgrid&period;net&sol;ls&sol;click&quest;upn&equals;4tNED-2FM8iDZJQyQ53jATUQbHShgs1dpIRNhCj-2BOB4c0mWCgYV4MHdXckCDxD5MwzsB40&lowbar;wTNfnrmQOffGjDNIakurutCUkJ-2FORQ-2FG00i8GTVyZAjjbg5OrYQkEmeBe3YUn9fOo6Ev2ht05ttkpynV7MWtnJnym-2Bi8Allg8FyELwSdHRlFGnrVVrTd2Jw8ZOnXMaziarnLCDxDTwIME-2FjEjQoWq01rdfxJWxLwZXhwfYOUIEnYEavOW18nA69U5L99UHxVUnl5DqKREeLb6Q3SY7LEHl3C9UgJeASy-2FTDaR5n6g1AdZzx4chKSdljMhTyt-2FUxvLSRkIpHmxjslZ1oEBWdLfs9pCwEZ4-2F-2BVvqQ5-2Fm7H-2BM1GTX5ad4B85B3Hi5wgaGmlQJz56CTl0r6oim-2FjI1csU5NUdXuAjuDhUcCGlo3a120-3D" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener">&nbsp&semi;<u>here<&sol;u><&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>

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