Drake returns to No. 1 as Dolly Parton opens big with ‘Rockstar’

Drake’s latest album, ‘For All the Dogs,’ returns to No. 1 on Billboard’s album chart this week thanks to an expanded edition, while Dolly Parton notches her highest chart position ever.

Six weeks ago, ‘For All the Dogs’ opened at the top of major streaming numbers, and it’s been in the Top 5 ever since. Last week, Drake released a new version of it – the “Scary Hours Edition” – with six new songs, bringing the album back has been sent to No. 1 with the equivalent of 145,000 sales in the United States, including 190 million streams, according to tracking service Luminate.

That was enough to keep Taylor Swift’s “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” at No. 2, while Parton, 77, starts in third place with “Rockstar,” the rock-themed double album she made after her induction into the Rock & Roll Hall . of Fame last year (an honor she initially declined). It includes songs like ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’, ‘Stairway to Heaven’ and ‘Let It Be’, with guests including Joan Jett, Elton John, Rob Halford of Judas Priest and Paul. And Ringo.

Incredibly, “Rockstar” becomes Parton’s highest-charting album, and only the third in her storied career to reach the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 all-genre chart. “Trio,” her 1987 collaboration with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt, and 2014’s “Blue Smoke,” both went to No. 6. Among Parton’s solo albums and LPs with her former singing partner Porter Wagoner, she has had numerous titles. in the Top 10 on Billboard’s country chart, including eight No. 1s.

Also opening this week, K-pop septet Enhypen at No. 4 with “Orange Blood,” and Morgan Wallen’s “One Thing at a Time” remains at No. 5. Last week’s bestseller, “Rock-Star” by Stray Kids, another K-pop group, drops to No. 7 in its second week.