Dolly Parton’s music career spans over five decades, and she’s still finding new ways to surprise us. The country legend knocked it out of the park with her latest record Rockstar, and managed to score her highest-charting studio album on the Billboard 200 chart.
Rockstar debuted at no. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart, behind Drake’s For All the Boys and Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version). It’s the highest-charting new album this week with 128,000 equivalent album units earned, consisting of 118,500 in album sales, 8,000 in SEA units, and 1,500 in TEA units.
Rockstar is the highest-charting album of Parton’s career, and the third to hit the top ten, following Blue Smoke from 2014 and her collaborative album Trio with Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris from 1987, which both hit no. 6.
Rockstar also helped Parton score the biggest sales week for an album in the modern era, in addition to marking her biggest week by units earned since Billboard embraced this charting system in 2014. It also debuted atop the Top Country and Top Rock Albums charts.
Rockstar was released on November 17, and it marks Parton’s first foray into the rock genre. It features both original songs and covers of beloved rock classics, recorded alongside the likes of Sting, Miley Cyrus, Debbie Harry, Elton John, Lizzo, and Paul McCartney.
