{"id":174828,"date":"2026-08-31T20:13:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T03:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=174828"},"modified":"2026-08-31T20:13:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T03:13:44","slug":"dolly-partons-classic-songs-reach-the-hot-100-top-40-following-her-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/dolly-partons-classic-songs-reach-the-hot-100-top-40-following-her-passing\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton\u2019s classic songs reach the Hot 100 top 40 following her passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dolly Parton<\/strong>\u2019s timeless hits\u00a0 \u201c<strong>Jolene<\/strong>\u201d and \u201c<strong>I Will Always Love You<\/strong>\u201d have reached the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time! \u201cJolene\u201d reentered the September 5 chart at #16, and \u201cI Will Always Love You\u201d debuted at #27. The songs gained new attention following Dolly Parton\u2019s death on August 25 in Nashville at age 80.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dolly Parton - Jolene (Official Audio)\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ixrje2rXLMA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Both songs were written by Dolly herself and were released in 1974. \u201cJolene\u201d became her first of 23 career Hot 100 entries, originally reaching #60 that year. Her 1974 recording of \u201cI Will Always Love You\u201d had a different story. The song never charted on the Hot 100, although it did reach #1 on the Billboard\u2019s Hot Country Songs chart, and so did \u201cJolene.\u201d However, in 1982, \u201cI Will Always Love You\u201d stormed the charts for the first time, reaching #53. Whitney Houston then took her cover of the song to #1 in 1992 and 1993. Similarly, Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s version of \u201cJolene\u201d peaked at #7 in 2024.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dolly Parton - I Will Always Love You (Live)\" width=\"1240\" height=\"930\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pW2TgGy5gjY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Three more Dolly songs also returned to the Hot 100 following her passing. \u201c9 to 5\u201d ranked#. 18, \u201cIslands in the Stream\u201d with Kenny Rogers reached #26, and \u201cHere You Come Again\u201d landed at #44. With these results, Dolly Parton now has 10 career Hot 100 top-40 hits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dolly Parton\u2019s timeless hits\u00a0 \u201cJolene\u201d and \u201cI Will Always Love You\u201d have reached the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time! \u201cJolene\u201d reentered the September 5 chart at #16, and \u201cI Will Always Love You\u201d debuted at #27. The songs gained new attention following Dolly Parton\u2019s death on August 25 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":174838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,2386,7],"tags":[4282],"class_list":["post-174828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-celebrities","category-news","tag-dolly-parton"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174841,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174828\/revisions\/174841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}