{"id":71479,"date":"2026-08-27T20:34:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T20:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/27\/dolly-parton-earns-2000-percent-streaming-bump-after-death\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T20:34:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T20:34:32","slug":"dolly-parton-earns-2000-percent-streaming-bump-after-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/27\/dolly-parton-earns-2000-percent-streaming-bump-after-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton Earns 2,000 Percent Streaming Bump After Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;Jolene&#8221; and &#8220;9 to 5&#8221; were Parton&#8217;s most-played songs following her death<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/dolly-parton\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dolly-parton\" data-tag=\"dolly-parton\">Dolly Parton<\/a> left behind an illustrious catalog when she <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/dolly-parton-dead-obit-1234810193\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/dolly-parton-dead-obit-1234810193\/\">died<\/a> on Tuesday following a brief battle with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/dolly-parton-cause-of-death-1235615493\/\">cancer<\/a>. As soon as the news of her death hit, fans tuned into the beloved superstar\u2019s music, sparking a 2,222 percent bump in U.S. streams since Monday, Aug. 24, according to Luminate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tUnsurprisingly, Parton\u2019s most-streamed song after her death was the vulnerable classic <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/best-dolly-parton-songs-1234701711\/jolene-2-1234701845\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/best-dolly-parton-songs-1234701711\/jolene-2-1234701845\/\">\u201cJolene,\u201d <\/a>which earned 2.7 million on-demand streams in the U.S. on Tuesday alone, marking a 1276.15 percent increase. The track is also one of the country icon\u2019s <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country-lists\/dolly-parton-jolene-best-covers-response-songs-1235616220\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country-lists\/dolly-parton-jolene-best-covers-response-songs-1235616220\/\">most-covered <\/a>hits. \u201c9 to 5,\u201d the pop-country smash that accompanied the singer\u2019s debut film of the same name, came in close second with 2.3 million streams. \u201cI Will Always Love You,\u201d followed with 1.7 million streams, \u201cHere You Come Again,\u201d came next and notched 1.3 million streams, and \u201cIsland in the Stream,\u201d rounded out Parton\u2019s top five most-streamed songs with 1.1 million streams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tGlobally, Parton\u2019s music got a huge bump, too. She earned 34.9 million streams worldwide on Tuesday which made for a 1,408 percent increase in international streams since Monday.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBack in 1973, \u201cJolene\u201d earned Parton her first entry onto the Billboard Hot 100, and it won\u2019t be a major surprise if it returns to the chart next week along with more of the superstar\u2019s music. Parton\u2019s catalog saw major sales bumps as well across digital and physical releases in the U.S., with 7.3 thousand products sold on Tuesday, marking a 7,739 percent increase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBeyond audio-only streams, Parton\u2019s music also saw an increase in audio\/video streams. On Tuesday, she earned 26.3 million audio\/video streams in the U.S., and 35 million worldwide. That\u2019s 2,109 percent increase and 1,280 percent increase, respectively.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/dolly-partons-music-2000-percent-audio-only-streams-1235616785\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Jolene&#8221; and &#8220;9 to 5&#8221; were Parton&#8217;s most-played songs following her death Dolly Parton left behind an illustrious catalog when she died on Tuesday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":71480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}