Will Dolly Parton Earn Her First Billboard 200 No. 1 Album Posthumously?

Over the course of her incredible six-decade career as an entertainer, Dolly Parton racked up a stunning number of achievements and accolades — including two Billboard Hot 100 No.

1 singles, 10 Grammy wins (one the Lifetime Achievement Award) and induction to both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame.

But one that alluded the legendary late performer during her lifetime was a Billboard 200 No.

1 album.

Parton was certainly no stranger to the chart, having racked up a whopping 50 entries on the 200 in her career, starting with the No.

184-peaking Just the Two of Us alongside Porter Wagoner in 1969.

But despite reaching the listing’s top 20 nine times and the top 10 three times, she never found her way to No.

1 on the chart — getting closest with the No.

3-peaking Rockstar in 2023.

But the book might not be completely closed on that.

Following Parton’s death earlier this week, her streams have exploded, as a nation in mourning looks to celebrate her life and work once more.

On Tuesday (Aug.

25), the day of her death, she was the second-most-streamed artist in the country, with her official on-demand U.S. streams up over 2,000% from the prior Tuesday — and those streams just continued to rise on Wednesday, to over 46 million, according to early data provided by Luminate.

Those streams are resounding enough to make her one of the most-streamed artists of the whole week, despite the fact that she was only racking up a little over one million streams a day in the first few days of the tracking week (which starts on Friday).