Forty-four years ago Tuesday, “Holding On to Nothin'” is recorded with Porter; released as their second duet single three months later, it peaks at No. 7. Forty-two years ago Tuesday, “Daddy Come and Get Me” debuts on the country singles chart; it would top out at only No. 40. Thirty-four years ago Wednesday, after spending five weeks at No. 1 on the country charts and reaching No. 3 on the pop charts, “Here You Come Again” is certified as Dolly's first gold single for sales in excess of 1 million copies. Thirty-eight years ago Thursday, “Jolene” becomes Dolly's second No. 1 country single; it would also reach No. 60 U.S. pop, No. 44 U.S. adult contemporary and No. 7 U.K. pop. Forty-four years ago Friday, Porter & Dolly's first duet album, Just Between You and Me, debuts on the country album charts; it would reach No. 8. Twenty-two years ago Friday, “Time For Me to Fly” debuts on the country singles chart; it would peak at No. 39. Thirty-four years ago Saturday, Here You Come Again marks its seventh of nine weeks atop the country album charts (Dolly's second); it also reaches No. 20 pop and becomes her first platinum album for sales in excess of 1 million copies.
Charts
U.S., Feb. 11 edition:
Joyful Noise Soundtrack No. 33 pop albums (down from No. 12; third week; peaked at No. 12), No. 32 current albums (down from No. 12; second week; peaked at No. 12), No longer in top 25 digital albums (down from No. 8; third week; peaked at No. 8), No. 7 independent label albums (down from No. 3; third week; peaked at No. 2), No. 2 Christian albums (down from No. 1; third week; peaked at No. 1), No. 2 gospel albums (no change; third week; peaked at No. 1), No. 3 Christian and gospel albums (down from No. 2; third week; peaked at No. 2), No. 1 soundtrack albums (no change; third week; peaked at No. 1), No. 7 Internet sales (up from No. 11; second week; peaked at No. 7)
"Higher Medley" with Queen Latifah, Keke Palmer, Jeremy Jordan, Angela Grovey, DeQuina Moore & Andy Karl: No. 1 gospel digital sales (no change; third week), No. 24 Christian digital sales, No. 24 Christian and gospel digital sales (down from No. 2 each; third week)
"From Here To The Moon And Back" with Kris Kristofferson and Jeremy Jordan: No. 4 gospel digital sales (no change; third week; peaked at No. 4), No. 49 Christian digital sales (down from No. 25; third week; peaked at No. 25), No. 50 Christian and digital sales (down from No. 25; second week; peaked at No. 25)
"He's Everything" with Queen Latifah, Keke Palmer, Jeremy Jordan, Andy Karl & DeQuina Moore No longer in top 25 gospel digital sales (down from No. 15; second week)
U.K., Feb. 4 edition:
Better Day No. 9 country (down from No. 7; 21st week; peaked at No. 1 for five weeks)
Australia, Jan. 30 edition:
The Very Best of Dolly Parton, Vol. 1 No. 14 country (down from No. 7; 99th week; peaked at No. 1)
In-person Dolly (scheduled live
appearances, some are tentative)
• March 24, Season Opening, Dollywood, Pigeon Forge, Tenn.
• May 11, Homecoming Parade, Pigeon Forge, Tenn.
Upcoming television appearances
(All times Eastern unless noted)
Feb. 4, 2:05 p.m., Starz Kids, The Beverly Hillbillies
'Joyful' Soundtrack Starts Decline The Joyful Noise Soundtrack has begun to slip in its third week, the Feb. 11 Billboard charts showed. The title loses 21 places to No. 33 pop, 20 to No. 32 current albums, one to No. 2 Christian digital sales, one to No. 3 Christian and gospel digital sales, and four to No. 7 independent albums while holding steady at No. 2 gospel digital sales and falling out of the 25-position pop digital album sales, down from No. 8. It maintains the No. 1 soundtracks spot for a third week and rises four to No. 7 Internet sales in its second week there. On the singles side, "Higher Medley" by Queen Latifah, Dolly, Keke Palmer, Jeremy Jordan, Angela Grovey, DeQuina Moore and Andy Karl holds steady at No. 1 gospel digital sales for a third week but drops 20 places to No. 24 Christian digital sales and Christian/gospel digital sales; "Man in the Mirror" by Palmer holds steady at No. 2 gospel digital sales and falls 21 to No. 28 Christian digital sales and Christian/gospel digital sales; "Maybe I'm Amazed" by Jordan and Palmer holds falls three to No. 6 gospel digital sales and drops off the 50-position Christian digital sales and Christian/gospel digital sales charts; "Here to the Moon and Back" by Dolly, Kris Kristofferson and Jeremy Jordan remains steady at No. 4 gospel digital sales and falls 24 to No. 49 Christian digital sales and 25 to No. 50 Christian/gospel digital sales; "Fix Me Jesus" by Latifah gains drops nine to No. 18 gospel digital sales; "That's The Way God Planned It" by Ivan Kelley Jr. falls off the 25-position gospel digital sales list, down from No. 12; and "He's Everything" by Dolly, Latifah, Palmer, Jordan, Karl and Moore falls off the gospel digital sales chart, down from No. 15. The Little Willies' For The Good Times, with Norah Jones' cover of Dolly's "Jolene," falls three to No. 24 country in its third week, 61 places to No. 159 pop, 48 spots to No. 134 current albums, 10 to No. 19 Internet sales, 17 to No. 24 tastemakers, five to No. 9 Canadian country and 25 to No. 69 Canadian pop. Ladysmith Black Mambazo & Friends, with Dolly's cover of "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" with them, loses eight to No. 11 world albums and falls off the 50-position gospel albums list, down from No. 29. The Grascals' Country Classics With A Bluegrass Spin, featuring Dolly on three tracks, falls three to No. 13 in its 46th chart week, while Rhonda Vincent's Taken, featuring Dolly on one song, falls back off the 15-position bluegrass list, down from No. 11 in its 32nd week. Overall, Tim McGraw's Emotional Traffic debuts at No. 1 country and No. 2 pop with 68,000 copies sold in its first week, while Kellie Pickler's 100 Proof debuts at No. 2 country and No. 7 pop with 27,000 units moved in its first week. In related news, the Joyful Noise movie held steady Wednesday at No. 14 with a box office of $186,182, bringing its cumulative total to $27,295,839.
TLC 'Obsession' Show Returns A show that kicked off with two major Dolly fans showing her their massive collection has been picked up for an entire season. My Crazy Obsession premieres March 7 on TLC, The Hollywood Reporter reported here, although I doubt they'll find new Dolly fans to highlight :)
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Past news
Feb. 2: A 'Joyful' $27 Million Reached Dolly's movie Joyful Noise on Tuesday passed the $27 million mark in box office sales, it was revealed Wednesday. The picture maintained its No. 14 ranking on Monday and Tuesday with $191,303 and $242,451 in ticket sales, respectively. Since release Jan. 13, it has grossed $27,109,657.
'60 Minutes' Interview To Repeat
CBS has announced that its interview with Dolly on 60 Minutes that originally aired to promote the opening of 9 To 5: The Musical on Broadway will repeat this weekend. It will be included in a special 60 Minutes Presents: Three Remarkable Women, which will also profile Vogue editor Anna Wintour and actress Meryl Streep. All three interviews were conducted by reporter Morley Safer. The show airs at 8 p.m. Eastern Sunday.
Jan. 31: 'Noise' Falls Further Than Predicted When the actual box office numbers were counted Monday, Dolly's film Joyful Noise fell a little further than was originally expected. Instead of the No. 13 in the weekend estimates, the project actually came in at No. 14 with a gross of $3,188,393, bringing its cumulative total to $26.68 million. It made its estimated No. 12 position Saturday and No. 14 Friday but came in at No. 15 Sunday instead of the estimated No. 14 spot.
Calif., Ill. Libraries Recognized A couple of communities were celebrating Dolly's Imagination Library this week. In Mendocino County, Calif., folks were handing out their 50,000th book in the literacy program, which The Record-Bee reported on here, and in Illinois, TribLocal reported here about the program's third anniversary locally in Elgin.
Jan. 30: 'Joyful' Drops To No. 13 In its third weekend at the cinema, Dolly's new film Joyful Noise dropped out of the top 10, as was expected with three new movies opening in wide release plus several Oscar nominees gaining audiences as a result of their award prospects. The movie slipped from No. 7 for the week down to No. 13 for the weekend with an estimated $3.24 million gross for the three days. This brings the total in box office receipts to $26.7 million, with $850,000 estimated and 14th place on each Friday and Sunday and $1.54 million and 12th place on Saturday. The film also lost a quarter of its theaters and is now showing at 2,021 screens nationwide.
British, Aussie Chart Updates Released Dolly's Better Day falls two but remains in the top 10 for a 22nd week on the British country music chart, it was announced Sunday. The CD comes in at No. 9 country albums in the U.K., while Dolly: Live From London falls off the 20-position country compilations list, down from No. 18 last week, its 97th there. Norah Jones' group, The Little Willies' For The Good Times, with their cover of Dolly's "Jolene," slips one to No. 4 country in its third U.K. week. In Australia, The Very Best Of Dolly Parton, Volume 1 drops seven to No. 14 country in its 99th week Down Under and loses six spots to No. 25 pop catalog albums in its 26th week there.
Kenny Talks Up Dolly In The Paper Dolly is Kenny Rogers' favorite singing partner, he tells The Miami Herald. Check out the story here. Thanks, Todd!
Jan. 28: 'Joyful' Nears $23.5 Million Dolly's Joyful Noise movie wrapped up its second full week on Thursday with a return to seventh place gross with ticket sales of $431,219. That brought its weekly total to seventh place at $7.66 million. Since release, its cumulative gross is $23,487,510. With several new films opening Friday, it is unlikely to remain in the top 10 this weekend.
Jan. 27: 'Noise' Dominates Gospel Charts In Second Week The Joyful Noise Soundtrack hits its previously-announced No. 12 spot on the all-genre pop albums chart for Feb. 4 released in full by Billboard magazine on Thursday, rising from its No. 21 debut thanks to second-week sales. The title also rises eight places to No. 12 current albums, holds onto the No. 1 soundtracks spot for a second week, gains one to No. 1 Christian albums, slips one to No. 2 gospel albums, loses one to No. 3 independent albums, moves up three digits to No. 8 digital sales albums and debuts at No. 11 on the Internet sales chart. On the singles tallies, "Higher Medley" by Queen Latifah, Dolly, Keke Palmer, Jeremy Jordan, Angela Grovey, DeQuina Moore and Andy Karl holds steady at No. 1 gospel digital sales, No. 4 Christian digital sales and No. 4 Christian/gospel digital sales; "Man in the Mirror" by Palmer holds steady at No. 2 gospel digital sales and gains 12 to No. 7 Christian digital sales and No. 7 Christian/gospel digital sales; "Maybe I'm Amazed" by Jordan and Palmer holds steady at No. 3 gospel digital sales and rises 11 to No. 19 Christian digital sales and No. 19 Christian/gospel digital sales; "Here to the Moon and Back" by Dolly, Kris Kristofferson and Jeremy Jordan remains steady at No. 4 gospel digital sales and moves up 11 to No. 25 Christian digital sales and No. 25 Christian/gospel digital sales; "Fix Me Jesus" by Latifah gains one to No. 9 gospel digital sales; "That's The Way God Planned It" by Ivan Kelley Jr. shoots up 13 to at No. 12 gospel digital sales; and "He's Everything" by Dolly, Latifah, Palmer, Jordan, Karl and Moore holds steady at No. 15 gospel digital sales. The Little Willies' For The Good Times, with Norah Jones' cover of Dolly's "Jolene," falls 12 to No. 21 country in its second week, 53 places to No. 98 pop, 44 spots to No. 86 current albums, and two to No. 9 Internet sales while holding steady at No. 7 tastemakers and rising two to No. 4 Canadian country and 10 to No. 44 Canadian pop. Ladysmith Black Mambazo & Friends, with Dolly's cover of "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" with them, loses one to No. 3 world albums and 15 places to No. 29 gospel albums while falling off the 75-position Christian and gospel albums, dowm from its No. 10 debut, and off the 200-position current albums chart, down from its No. 149 debut. The Grascals' Country Classics With A Bluegrass Spin, featuring Dolly on three tracks, dips one to No. 10 in its 45th chart week, while Rhonda Vincent's Taken, featuring Dolly on one song, re-enters the 15-position bluegrass list at No. 11 for a 32nd week. Overall, Toby Keith's Clancy's Tavern rises two to No. 1 country and 14 places to No. 8 pop in its 13th week, while Lady Antebellum's Own The Night loses one to No. 2 country and holds steady at No. 17 pop in its 19th chart week. In related news, the Joyful Noise movie slipped two spots on Wednesday in the box office ratings behind The Iron Lady at No. 7 and Mission Impossible at No. 8, grossing $384,281 to come in at No. 9 and raise its cumulative total to $23.06 million.
Jan. 26: 'Joyful' Misses Top 10 CDs The Joyful Noise Soundtrack doesn't make it into the top 10 this week, Billboard revealed Wednesday. When the new charts come out on Thursday the CD will rise nine places to No. 12 pop for selling just under 17,000 in its second week of release, matching the predictions reported here Tuesday from the preliminary building charts and representing a 23 percent sales increase. Also, the Joyful Noise movie regained the No. 7 box office spot on Tuesday, grossing $518,173 to raise its cumulative total to $22.7 million.
Jan. 25: 'Noise' CD, Movie Updates Whether the Joyful Noise Soundtrack is going to break into the pop top 10 in its second week of sales will be a close call, preliminary numbers showed Tuesday. The weekly building charts, which don't include all retailers, placed the album at No. 12 for the week with about 16,500 copies sold. It is often off by one or two positions on several CDs in the top 50. We should know Wednesday when the top 10 is usually revealed, whether it will be in the top 10 or not. If not, we'll have to wait for the full chart on Thursday to know its position. Meanwhile, the Joyful Noise movie this week plays on the same 2,735 screens as its first two weekends and on Monday slipped to eighth place in box office grosses, with $408,418 in ticket sales falling just $28,000 below Mission Impossible. The final weekend actual ticket sales were released Monday as well, showing a $5.9 million gross compared to a $6.08 million estimate. Including Monday's take, the film is now at $22.15 million since release.
'Mom' DVD Came Out Tuesday Tuesday saw the U.S. release of the DVD of the Canadian film The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom, which features several vintage 1970s clips of Dolly in addition to a present-day voice-over appearance in the movie. Get yours here!
Jan. 23: Movie No. 7, CD Moving To Top 10 The Joyful Noise Soundtrack could be heading toward the Billboard top 10 albums when the new chart is released on Thursday, the magazine reported here over the weekend. Early sales data showed the album as the eighth-biggest selling title for the first four days of the chart week, last Monday through Thursday. It had previously sold 13,000 copies in its first week for a No. 21 debut. Its advance to the top 10 likely means second week sales in the 20,000-unit area. It would mark Dolly's just second album to reach the pop top 10, with the other being 1987's Trio, which made it to No. 6. In related news, the Joyful Noise movie slipped three spots for the weekend to rest at No. 7 with an estimated $6.08 million in ticket sales for a cumulative gross of $21.9 million. Given that the film cost an estimated $25 million to make and filmmakers receive almost all of the ticket sale proceeds, the film is close to turning a profit. Weekend estimates were $1.66 million and seventh place on Friday, $2.85 million and eighth place on Saturday and $1.57 million and seventh place on Sunday. It remained on the same number of screens, 2,735 nationwide, the third most of any film that played this weekend.
Overseas Chart Updates Dolly's Better Day slips one this week on the British country music chart, it was announced Sunday. The CD lands at No. 7 country albums in its 21st week in the U.K., while Dolly: Live From London dips three to No. 18 country compilations in its 97th U.K chart week. Norah Jones' group, The Little Willies' For The Good Times, featuring a cover of Dolly's "Jolene," loses two to No. 3 country in the U.K. Down Under, The Very Best Of Dolly Parton, Volume 1 rises five to No. 7 Australian country in its 98th week and shoots up 30 places to No. 19 pop catalog albums in its 25th week there.
Dolly's New Park Will Be In Two Parts A few more details have emerged on Dolly's joint venture with Gaylord Entertainment to build a water/snow park in Nashville. The Tennessean reports here that the facility will feature two separate areas: one that will be open in the summer as a 27-acre water area and one that will be open in fall and winter for the approximately 13-acre snow area with the capacity to produce man-made snow when it is as warm as 70 degrees,
Library Helps With Literacy Scores One affiliate of Dolly's Imagination Library literacy program is seeing its participants score 15 percent higher on entering kindergarten literacy tests than those who did not receive her books, Ohio's Middletown Journal reported here over the weekend.
Jan. 21: Dolly Is Next Week's 'Country Weekly' Cover Girl Dolly graces the new issue of Country Weekly magazine slated to be on newsstands nationwide Monday (although some stores put them out earlier). The edition dated Jan. 30 features a large picture of her on its front and the headline "All About Dolly: Dolly Parton opens up about her fight scenes with Queen Latifah, turning 66 years young and what she'll do for $50 million." Inside is also a movie poster of Joyful Noise, since that is the primary focus of the story. "I only take parts that I can do that are close to my personality because I don't know if I could play anything outside of my basic personality," Dolly explains in the interview, adding that the dancing she was required to perform proved the toughest challenge. "I was more nervous about that than anything," she says.
'Noise' Closes In On $16 Million Joyful Noise finished its first week of release Thursday with $15.83 million in box office ticket sales and a No. 4 placing for the seven-day period. It maintained its No. 4 place on both Wednesday and Thursday, grossing about $100,000 below Mission Impossible each night at $601,005 on Wednesday and $631,218 for Dolly's birthday. Four major new films opened Friday, so if Dolly's movie keeps attracting the same share of the total movie audience, it could remain in the bottom third of the top 10 this week.
Jan. 20: Dolly Water, Snow Park To Open In Nashville Dolly joined Music City's mayor, the governor of Tennessee and others on her 66th birthday Thursday to announce her theme park empire is expanding west to the state capital with a Nashville-based water and snow park operated by Dollywood. The yet-to-be-named attraction will start with a $50 million, 50-acre park cattycorner across the street from the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center that will operate as a water park in warmer months and winter sports park with man-made snow in colder months. Image of Dolly with Gaylord Hotels Chairman and CEO Colin Reed is courtesy Gaylord Entertainment. Click on for larger version.
Eventually, additional features will be added on the 114-acre property being developed as a 50-50 joint venue between Gaylord Entertainment, which owns the Opryland Hotel and Grand Ole Opry, and the Dollywood Company, Herschend Family Entertainment's partnership with Dolly that owns and operates Dollywood, Dollywood's Splash Country, Pigeon Forge and Branson's Dixie Stampede and Myrtle Beach's Pirate's Voyage. The first phase, the water and snow park, which is being billed as the first joint water and snow facility in the nation, is expected to host a groundbreaking late this year or early next year and open for business in summer 2014. Projections are for 450 employees and 500,000 guests during its first year of operation, compared to 4 million guests and more than 3,000 employees at the Dollywood Company's three Pigeon Forge businesses.
"I'm so excited about this opportunity," Dolly said. "I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special. We're all working on new types of entertainment to do in the daytime and nighttime for the whole family so we bring new folks to the area year round." From left, Craig Ross of Dollywood, Nashville Mayor Karl Dean, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, Dolly and Colin Reed of Gaylord Entertainment. Image courtesy Gaylord Entertainment. Click on for a larger version.
The partnership is a bit ironic, since competition from Dollywood was cited as one of the reasons for the closure of Gaylord's Opryland theme park in 1997, which was converted into a mall in 2000. Of course, Dolly also has ties to Gaylord as a member of its Grand Ole Opry and the millennium New Year's concert headliner at the Opryland Hotel in 2000. In addition, during her tenure on The Porter Wagoner Show, the program became first television show to be broadcast from Opryland when it moved to the property shortly after the theme park opened in 1972. The land for the new development was rezoned in 2007 for a "commercial attraction," which started rumors that a new theme park was coming.
"Tourism is the second largest industry in Tennessee, generating more than a billion dollars in tax revenue annually and employing more than 170,000 Tennesseans," Gov. Bill Haslam said. "This project will be a welcome addition to the wide variety of attractions and destinations across our great state, and I applaud the collaboration and spirit that has led to this announcement."
"Music City has become a travel destination unlike any other in the country," Nashville Mayor Karl Dean said. "The addition of this family entertainment complex near Opryland adds a critical missing piece to our tourist offerings. It provides a unique leisure attraction that will further enhance our already booming hospitality industry, which is one of our city's top private sector employers."
According to The Wall Street Journalhere, this will be the third water park tied to a Gaylord mega-hotel, with two others being in Ft. Worth, Texas, and Orlando, Fla. It will be the second Herschend property with man-made snow, having already brought the technology to Georgia at its Stone Mountain Park. Site plan for the new water and snow park. Click on it for a larger view.
Additional coverage is available from The Tennesseanhere, News Channel 5 here, Nashville Business Journalhere, Knoxville News Sentinelhere and CNN here with an interview also available in the media player below.
'Joyful Noise' On Eight Charts, Seven Songs Chart As was expected, the Joyful Noise Soundtrack makes a huge impact on the Jan. 28 Billboard charts released Thursday. The album debuts at No. 1 soundtrack albums and gospel albums; No. 2 Christian albums, Christian and gospel albums and independent label albums; No. 11 digital album sales, No. 20 current pop albums and No. 21 overall all-genre pop albums. Eight tracks from the project show up on various spiritual charts as well for the week. "Higher Medley," billed as Queen Latifah, Dolly, Keke Palmer, Jeremy Jordan, Angela Grovey, DeQuina Moore and Andy Karl debuts at No. 1 gospel digital sales, No. 4 Christian digital sales and No. 4 Christian/gospel digital sales; "Man in the Mirror" by Palmer debuts at No. 2 gospel digital sales, No. 19 Christian digital sales and No. 19 Christian/gospel digital sales; "Maybe I'm Amazed" by Jordan and Palmer debuts at No. 3 gospel digital sales, No. 30 Christian digital sales and No. 30 Christian/gospel digital sales; "Here to the Moon and Back" by Dolly, Kris Kristofferson and Jeremy Jordan debuts at No. 4 gospel digital sales, No. 36 Christian digital sales and No. 36 Christian/gospel digital sales; "Fix Me Jesus" by Latifah debuts at No. 10 gospel digital sales; "He's Everything" by Dolly, Latifah, Palmer, Jordan, Karl and Moore debuts at No. 15 gospel digital sales; and "That's The Way God Planned It" by Ivan Kelley Jr. debuts at No. 25 gospel digital sales. Two other new Dolly-related projects also impact the charts this week for the first time. The Little Willies' For The Good Times, featuring Norah Jones' cover of Dolly's "Jolene," debuts at No. 9 country, No. 45 pop, No. 42 current albums, No. 7 Internet sales, No. 7 tastemakers, No. 6 Canadian country and No. 54 Canadian pop. Ladysmith Black Mambazo & Friends, featuring Dolly's lead vocals on a reggae version of "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" with Bonnie Raitt on slide guitar, debuts at No. 2 world albums, No. 4 gospel albums, No. 10 Christian and gospel albums and No. 149 current albums. Elsewhere on the charts, The Grascals' Country Classics With A Bluegrass Spin, with Dolly on three songs, rises five places to No. 9 in its 44th chart week, while Rhonda Vincent's Taken, with Dolly on one track, falls back off the 15-position bluegrass list, down from No. 12 last week, its 31st. Overall, Lady Antebellum's Own The Night remains at No. 1 country but drops five to No. 17 pop in its 18th chart week, while Luke Bryan's Tailgates and Tanlines rises one to No. 2 country and No. 18 pop in its 23rd week.
More Library Coverage In The Press Dolly's Imagination Library literacy program sees some coverage in the media this week. In addition to discussing the program on Anderson, Anderson Cooper's daytime talk show, on Thursday, the free book program in Charlotte County, Fla., made The Herald Tribunehere and in Staunton, Va., made The News Leaderhere.
Jan. 19: Happy 66th Birthday, Dolly!
Sixty-six years ago Thursday, Dolly Rebecca Parton was born in the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee. We wish her the happiest of birthdays. Check out birthday wishes from the Joyful Noise promotional choir via YouTube in the media player above or by clicking here.
'Noise' Soundtrack To Top Gospel Chart The Joyful Noise Soundtrack will top the soundtrack albums list and gospel albums tally when the official Billboard charts are released Thursday, a press release issued Wednesday noted. In addition, the CD will be No. 2 independent label albums and No. 2 Christian albums as well as debuting in the top 20 pop albums list, as was predicted here based on preliminary sales data. In related news, Dolly was interviewed on NPR's Tell Me More program Wednesday. Take a listen here. Dolly and the film's music supervisor Mervyn Warren will be featured on Sirius XM's The Bob Edwards Show Friday, and Dolly's Jan. 11 appearance on The Late Show With David Letterman will repeat on CBS Jan. 27. Finally, the film retained its No. 4 position on Tuesday with a box office gross of about $800,000 (behind Contraband at $2.2 million, Beauty and the Beast 3D at $1 million and Mission Impossible at about $900,000).
Jan. 18: Soundtrack To Debut Big On Charts The Joyful Noise Soundtrack with three original Dolly compositions and four Dolly vocal performances appears headed for a possible debut this week in the top 20. The preliminary sales data released Tuesday that cover nearly all major U.S. retailers reported almost 14,000 copies sold in its first week, which would make it the No. 20 pop album and No. 1 soundtrack. The official full Billboard charts will come out Thursday. In related news, Dolly's Access Hollywood interview has been posted in several parts, one of which is available here. A clip of Dolly's interview with Anderson Cooper to air on his program Thursday was posted to Peoplehere denying that the photo of her supposed new tattoo between her boobs was real – it appeared she said she sometimes places little temporary tattoos there when she's wearing a very low top, and she pulled her top down a little to show Cooper and the audience that it wasn't there that day. Coverage associated with the movie resulted in Broadway.com conducting a poll of what Broadway role their readers would like to see Dolly to take on here, with Annie Get Your Gun's Annie Oakley at No. 1 with 25 percent, Hello Dolly's Dolly Levi with 23 percent and Wicked's Madame Morrible with 11 percent. Also, Culture Map Houston opined here that Dolly is a better "superior sassy broad" than Betty White. Finally, the actual box office grosses from the four-day weekend were released Tuesday:
Contraband $28,515,480
Beauty and the Beast 3D $22,213,922
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol $14,201,823
Joyful Noise $13,802,308
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows $10,444,071
Jan. 17: 'Noise' Hits No. 4, CD Selling Well Dolly's movie Joyful Noise recaptured the No. 3 position on Martin Luther King Jr. Day Monday, according to estimated grosses, but the $30,000 difference between its $2.53 million haul at No. 3 and Mission Impossible at No. 4 wasn't enough to cover the difference between the two films on Saturday and Sunday, so Dolly's film finished the four-day weekend at No. 4. The top four for the holiday weekend, according to estimated grosses, were Contraband at $28.8 million, Beauty And The Beast 3D at $23.5 million, Mission Impossible with $14.2 million and Joyful Noise with $13.8 million. However, Warner Brothers executive vice president Jeff Goldstein told The Hollywood Reporterhere that it was "absolutely in the range of what we were looking for" and added that it played much better in several areas of the South, most notably Texas, Florida and Mississippi. ABC News gave a mostly positive review of the movie here, and The Wendy Williams Show has booked Queen Latifah for Wednesday's episode to promote the film. Finally, the soundtrack, available here, seems to be doing very well if online sales are any indication. The album has steadily seen sales increase since the movie hit theatres Friday, and by Monday it was the No. 2 best-seller on Amazon.com and the No. 3 best-seller on iTunes.
Jan. 16: 'Joyful' Now No. 4, Could Be No. 3 Although Dolly's new film Joyful Noise opened as the country's No. 3 film on Friday, it slipped to No. 4 for the full regular weekend but might recapture the No. 3 spot once Monday's holiday numbers are added in, observers say. On Friday, Contraband opened with $8.7 million, Beauty and the Beast 3D next with $5.6 million and Joyful Noise with $3.32 million. (All numbers are estimates until the actuals are released Monday afternoon -- below them were Mission Impossible with $3.27 million and The Devil Inside at $2.7 million.) Noise dropped to fourth on Saturday with $4.6 million and stayed there Sunday with $3.4 million, giving an overall line-up change for the full three days. Contraband stayed on top with $24.1 million and Beauty behind with $18.5 million. Mission Impossible made it to No. 3 with $11.5 million, followed by Noise at fourth just $155,000 lower at about $11.4 million. (Sherlock Holmes advanced past Devil to take fifth place with $8.4 million). However, since it is a holiday weekend, the industry will focus more on the four-day total than the three-day weekend, and the battle for third and fourth places is so close, the film could go back to No. 3. In fact, The Hollywood Reporter predicts here that the picture will do just that. It expects the four-day line-up to be Contraband with $28.4 million, Beauty with $24.7 million, Noise with between $14 million and $14.5 million, and Mission Impossible close behind with $14 million.
More Weekend 'Noise' Appearances
Dolly and Joyful Noise co-star Queen Latifah made several unannounced additional appearances over the weekend to promote the film. One of the more interesting was seeing the pair on Black Entertainment Television (BET), presumably Dolly's first appearance on the network. They stopped by the countdown program 106 & Park on Friday, where they had a brief interview and Dolly even rapped while Latifah beat-boxed. Check out the appearance here. Thanks, Tony! Dolly stopped by NBC's Today again on Sunday, having previously been on the program just three days prior. See that second appearance here. And on Friday night, they made an unannounced stop by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on NBC to participate in a game of charades with the host and his sidekick. Watch that skit here or in two parts in the media players above and below. In addition, it was announced over the weekend that Dolly will be Thursday's guest on Anderson Cooper's syndicated morning talk show, Anderson. Check your local listings for broadcast times and stations. The interview has already been taped; check out a preview here.
Overseas Chart Updates Dolly's Better Day is still in the top 10 on the British country music chart, it was revealed Sunday. The title holds steady at No. 6 country albums in its 20th week in the U.K., while Dolly: Live From London loses three to No. 15 country compilations in its 96th U.K chart week. Norah Jones' group, The Little Willies, see their For The Good Times, with their cover of Dolly's "Jolene," debut at No. 1 country in the U.K., but it didn't sell enough copies in its first week to make the top 100 pop list there. Down Under,
The Very Best Of Dolly Parton, Volume 1 drops five to No. 12 Australian country in its 97th week and dips 10 to No. 49 pop catalog albums in its 24th week there, while The Essential Dolly Parton falls off the 20-position country tally, down from No. 18 in its eighth chart week.
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Dolly graces the new issue of Country Weekly magazine slated to be on newsstands nationwide Monday (although some stores put them out earlier). The edition dated Jan. 30 features a large picture of her on its front and the headline "All About Dolly: Dolly Parton opens up about her fight scenes with Queen Latifah, turning 66 years young and what she'll do for $50 million." Inside is also a movie poster of 
Although Dolly's new film 