dolly on the rise

Seymour Herald/Web SupportDolly Parton

Although local idol Dolly Parton's chart performance last week as a singer was down, her numbers as a songwriter were on the rise, thanks to television phenomenon “American Idol.”
 
The most recent season’s champion, David Cook, landed multiple entries on the various singles charts in the first week that the program allowed sales figures on its contestants' recordings to be released. Among those tracks was his version of "Little Sparrow" from the episode in tribute to Dolly. The song debuted at No. 66 for digital downloads, No. 1 on the Bubbling Under The Hot 100 list (essentially meaning No. 101 for the all-genre song chart), No. 79 on the pop 100, No. 74 Canadian digital singles sales and No. 96 on the Canadian Hot 100 in the June 7 Billboard numbers released Thursday.

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