Dolly Parton's music rises on the charts

0:00A week after her death, Dolly Parton's songs are hitting new heights on the Billboard charts. Steven Thompson of MPDR Music has more. The three biggest chart hits of Dolly Parton's singing career all re-enter this week's Billboard Hot 100. Here you come again and islands in the stream, both land inside the top 50, and the former chart topper 9-5 re-enters the chart at number 18. But two more Parton classics hit new chart peaks decades after their release. I will always love you was a blockbuster for Whitney Houston in the 90s, but Parton's original version had never even cracked the Hot 100. Now, Parton's I will always love you enters the chart for the very first time at number 27. The highest charting Dolly Parton song in the aftermath of her death is Jo-Leen,

1:01which peaked at number 60 back in 1974. Now it re-enters the Hot 100 at number 16. The Billboard charts have always been an imperfect system for measuring a song's cultural footprint. And in the last decade or so, the metrics for compiling those charts have changed. The rise of streaming has created greater opportunities for country music to reach a huge mainstream audience. Those opportunities weren't there during the height of Dolly Parton's career. Today, in part due to streaming, country music dominates the Billboard Hot 100. Take for example Ella Langley and her song Choosing Texas. This week Choosing Texas is number one for a 20th week. That's the longest run of any non-holiday song in the history of the Hot 100. Fans may have lost Dolly Parton last week, but in death, she's become just the latest

2:02country star to rule the Billboard charts this year. Steven Thompson and P.R. Luzon.