Dolly Parton’s Half-Century Hot 100 Legacy: ‘9 to 5,’ ‘Islands in the Stream’ & More

On the Jan.

26, 1974-dated Billboard Hot 100 , “Jolene” debuted at No.

92, marking Dolly Parton ’s first entry on the chart and beginning a legendary history of hers that has stretched over more than 50 years.

As previously reported , the iconic entertainer died Tuesday (Aug.

25) in Nashville at age 80.

Related Dolly Parton, One of Country Music’s Biggest & Brightest Icons, Dies at 80 When “Jolene” made its first Hot 100 appearance (in between songs by Ashford & Simpson and Marvin Gaye), Parton had already logged more than 30 titles on the Hot Country Songs chart, including her first No.

1, “Joshua,” in February 1971.

A week after its Hot 100 debut, “Jolene” became her second of 25 Hot Country Songs leaders — the most among women in the chart’s history.

In 1978, Parton earned her first Hot 100 top 10, and top 40, hit with the No.

3-peaking “Here You Come Again.” The early ‘80s, meanwhile, marked Parton’s most high-profile era as a recording artist on the Hot 100, as she landed her two career No.

1s in that role: “9 to 5,” for two weeks in 1981, and the Bee Gees-penned “Islands in the Stream,” with Kenny Rogers, for two weeks in 1983.

In 1992, Parton began her longest Hot 100 reign overall — as the writer of “I Will Always Love You.” After her version had reached No.

53 in 1982 (while topping Hot Country Songs, as her original 1974 take had), Whitney Houston’s soaring cover, from the soundtrack to The Bodyguard , dominated for 14 weeks into 1993 — then the longest command since the chart originated in 1958. (A subsequent recording of the ballad by Parton, with Vince Gill, hit No.

15 on Hot Country Songs in 1995.) Parton most recently reached the Hot 100’s top 40 as a singer in 2006, when Brad Paisley’s Parton-featuring “When I Get Where I’m Going” — her 25th Hot Country Songs No.