Friday at 16:111 day 36 weeks Top 10 for 'Man I Need' then - a second Olivia song outdoing the 35 Top 10 weeks of 'I Believe' which was still a record at the start of the decade.
Friday at 16:111 day Author 09 | 13 | 22nd weekKenny Rogers and Dolly PartonIslands In The Stream2nd single from Eyes That See in the DarkReleased: 1983Label: Capitol Records NashvilleChart StatisticsNE (12/11/1983) | 70-45-35-26-15-11-8-8-7-8-10-24-32-52-68-xRE (24/03/2007) | 91-84-xRE (21/03/2009) | 88-xRE (12/07/2014) | 89-xRE (02/04/2020) | 63-xRE (03/09/2026) | 13-9Sales: 2,100,000+Certification: 3x PlatinumStatus: Standard Chart Ratio05 Sales34 Audio Streaming78 Video StreamingVideoBiographyKenny RogersKenny Rogers used to say he had two kinds of songs: ballads that capture what men want to say and women want to hear, and stories that put a listener in a place. That’s one way to explain selling 100 million albums or so. Another is that Rogers—handsome, genial, husky-voiced and bushy-bearded—was just the kind of guy people liked to listen to and look at, a natural entertainer who split the difference between the earthiness of country and the sophistication of pop and adult contemporary. Someone for that eight-to-80 demographic. By the time he passed—on 20 March 2020, at age 81—he’d been recording for more than 60 years. Born in 1938 and raised one of eight kids in a Houston housing project, Rogers had his musical epiphany at 12, watching Ray Charles live—it seemed cool, he thought, to have everyone clap when you sang and laugh when you talked. He started his first band, the Scholars, in high school, with a guitar bought using busboy tips. (The name was aspirational, Rogers said later—they were C students at best.) After stints playing upright bass in a jazz trio and folk-pop with The New Christy Minstrels, Rogers formed The First Edition, whose biggest tracks—most notably “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)”, which you’d probably recognise from its use in The Big Lebowski—mixed light psychedelia with country and R&B. By the end of the band’s run, Rogers was scraping by as a pitchman for a home guitar course and closing in on 40. Enter “Lucille”, which Rogers’ manager figured would either be laughed off as a novelty or take over country music. You know how that one broke. He went on to become one of country music’s first and biggest mainstream superstars, an arena-packing presence who paved the way for artists such as Shania Twain and Garth Brooks, reshaping our sense of what country was and how it figured into the pop landscape. His biggest songs—“The Gambler”, “Lady”, the Dolly Parton duet “Islands in the Stream”—remain the stock-in-trade of karaoke nights and television ads, the kind of music one learns not by discovery but by cultural osmosis. (That Rogers also figured out how to act—including starring in a series of made-for-TV movies based on “The Gambler”—didn’t hurt; he said all he had to do was be himself in different clothes.) Mellow as the music is, and modest as he was about it, Rogers also broke down boundaries and cleared the way for new combinations of sounds and styles—a chance he took on his inspiration and won. A gamble, you could say. - Apple MusicDolly PartonA powerful singer-songwriter and electric performer, Dolly Parton was one of country music’s most beloved figures. Born to an impoverished family in Tennessee in 1946 (in humble upbringings that would inspire such songs as “Coat of Many Colors”), she started singing in church, received a guitar at age eight and performed on regional radio programmes as a kid. She moved to Nashville the day after her high school graduation in 1964 and quickly signed with Monument Records. Her first charting single, 1966’s “Dumb Blonde”, introduced her as a fun-loving but independent woman confident enough to flout stereotypes and command her own destiny. In the late ’60s, Parton enjoyed huge success as a regular on Porter Wagoner’s weekly TV show and through a long string of collaborative hits. But she became even more popular as a solo artist, particularly with a pair of 1974 hits: the aching “I Will Always Love You”—which Parton wrote about needing to strike out on her own without Wagoner—and the timeless “Jolene”, with its poignant minor-key mode and emotional intensity. In 1981, Parton landed her first pop No. 1 hit, the blue-collar anthem “9 to 5”, and co-starred in the comedy film of the same name. She then had the biggest smash of her career in 1983 with “Islands In the Stream”, an easygoing romantic duet with Kenny Rogers. Further collaborations—like her albums with Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris, plus cameos on songs by Kesha and Miley Cyrus (her goddaughter)—expanded Parton’s legacy through the end of the 20th century and well into the 21st. Over time, she became involved in endeavours like her namesake Dollywood theme park, a 9 to 5 Broadway musical and the literacy-focused Imagination Library. But Parton’s latter-day work—including a series of stripped-down bluegrass albums and 2023’s Rockstar, a rock ’n’ roll album released upon her Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction—showed that her musical gifts contained multitudes. She passed away in August 2026 at age 80. - Apple MusicTop 100 Chart HistoryKenny Rogers1969 02 Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)1970 08 Something's Burning (Kenny Rogers & The First Edition)1977 01 Lucille -1-1977 39 Daytime Friends -1-1979 42 She Believes In Me -2*-1980 01 Coward Of The County -1-1980 12 Lady -1-1983 28 We've Got Tonight (Kenny Rogers & Sheena Easton) -1-1983 61 Eyes That See In The Dark -1-1983 07 Islands In The Stream (Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton) -2- MILLIONAIRE1984 92 What About Me? (with Kim Carnes & James Ingram) -1-1984 88 Christmas Without You (Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton) -1-1985 22 The Gambler -1*- MILLIONAIRE0 x #1 | 0 x Top 5 | 2 x Top 10 | 2 x Top 20 | 2 x Top 40 | 11 x Top 100Dolly Parton1976 07 Jolene -1- MILLIONAIRE1981 12 9 To 5 -1- MILLIONAIRE1983 07 Islands In The Stream (Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton) MILLIONAIRE1984 75 Here You Come Again -1-1984 88 Christmas Without You (Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton) -1-1994 64 The Day I Fall In Love (Dolly Parton & James Ingram) -OST-1998 86 Peace Train -1-2002 73 If -1-2011 67 Together You And I -1-2020 55 Cuddle Up, Cozy Down Christmas (Dolly Parton & Michael Bublé) -1-2025 83 TYRANT (Beyoncé & Dolly Parton)0 x #1 | 0 x Top 5 | 2 x Top 10 | 3 x Top 20 | 3 x Top 40 | 11 x Top 100Social Media Kenny Rogers Dolly Parton
Friday at 16:111 day Just now, 777666jason said:How many of those weeks were actually on SCR10 if I recall correctly
Friday at 16:121 day I hope dollys I will always love you can still have a chance to chart in the coming weeks
Friday at 16:121 day Shame "Islands In The Stream" couldn't get a new peak but glad to see it in the top 10!
Friday at 16:131 day Of course here comes a tune that got sampled in 1998 for the UK number two "Ghetto Supastar", from the movie Bulworth.
Friday at 16:131 day Just now, conorw said:10 if I recall correctlyEven more impressive since it seemed to hit ACR at the first possible chance
Friday at 16:131 day 3 top 10’s for Dolly! Islands in the stream is often replicated but the heart of it never truly matched. Beautiful song!
Friday at 16:141 day Not a huge fan of “Islands…” but looks like we’re in for 2 nice new peaks for 2 truly great Dolly songs. ❤️
Friday at 16:141 day Are they serious ?So they skipped Orbiter and Loser BUT they played Unwritten, Man I Need and Ordinary ????Fortunately, they didn't skip Dolly.
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