Dolly Parton Prints Album With The Highest Charging Through Rockstar

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JAKARTA - Dolly Parton's newly released full-star rock album, Rockstar is the highest-charting album ever.

The latest releases by veteran country, featuring top rock musicians, including Sting, Steven Tyler, Joan Jett and Blackhearts, Elton John, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, made their debut in number 3 on Billboard 200 over the week ended November 23 and sold 128,000 album equivalents.

Previously, the 77-year-old singer was twice in the top 10 of her career through the album Blue Smoke (2014) and her 1987 collaboration album with Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris, Trio. Both albums culminated in number 6.

The feat appears to have been largely due to physical sales, where Rockstar sold 118,500 copies of coffee in its first week of launch. This figure is more than double its last-largest-week sales, when it sold 50,500 copies of Slow Dancing With The Moon (1993) in its second week of launch.

The Parton's Rockstar album follows behind Taylor Swift's 1989 (Taylor's Version) in second place, which sold 138,000 units last week, and Drake's For All The Dogs in first place, which returned to number one after its release version of the deluxe on November 17, which includes six new songs.

Covering 30 songs for two and a half hours, Dolly Parton's 49th studio album features a mix of original songs including the main World On Fire single, and a number of classic covers, including The Police's Every Breath You Take, Prince's Purple Rain, and Led Shiplin's Stairway To Heaven.