Dolly Parton Hit Billboard’s Dance Charts, Too, And Even Earned a No. 1 Hit

Dolly Parton built an unparalleled career in country music, charting more than 100 hits on Billboard ’s Hot Country Songs ranking and earning 25 No.

1s — the most among women all-time.

But Parton, who died Tuesday in Nashville at age 80, also ventured into other genres, even finding success on Billboard ’s dance charts.

Parton’s first foray into dance music came in 1978, when she released the disco-influenced country album Heartbreaker .

The set reached No.

5 on the Top Country Albums chart (though it long predated the 2001 launch of Billboard ’s Top Dance Albums chart).

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15 in early 1979 on the (now-inactive) Dance Club Songs chart.

Parton returned to Dance Club Songs in 1981 with another paired entry, “9 to 5”/“House of the Rising Sun.” The former served as the famed theme to the film of the same name, in which Parton co-starred, while the latter was her take on the traditional folk ballad.

She made three more appearances on Dance Club Songs: with “Potential New Boyfriend” in 1983, bolstered by a nearly six-minute extended dance mix; her 1997 cover of Cat Stevens’ “Peace Train,” which received several dance remixes, including one featuring Ladysmith Black Mambazo; and, following a two-decade-plus absence, “Faith,” with Galantis and featuring Mr.

Probz, in 2020.

“Faith,” a dance reworking of John Hiatt’s 1987 song “Have a Little Faith in Me,” gave Parton a No.

1 on a dance chart at last, as it topped Dance Airplay in 2019.

It also reached No.