Dolly Parton is the most honored female country performer of all time. Achieving 25 RIAA certified gold, platinum and multi-platinum awards, she has had 25 songs reach #1 on the Billboard Country charts, a record for a female artist. She has 41 career top 10 country albums, a record for any artist, and she has 110 career-charted singles over the past 40 years. All-inclusive sales of singles, albums, hits collections, paid digital downloads and compilation usage during her Hall of Fame career have reportedly topped a staggering 100 million records – which includes sales of her 2016 chart-topping disc Pure & Simple, her first number one album on the Billboard Country Album charts in twenty-five years. She has garnered eight Grammy Awards – including a 2017 win with Pentatonix in the Country Duo/Group Performance category for their collaboration on her iconic 1973 hit “Jolene” – 10 Country Music Association Awards, five Academy of Country Music Awards, three American Music Awards and is one of only five female artists to win the Country Music Association’s Entertainer of the Year Award. In 1999 Parton was inducted as a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. She has her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and became a member of the National Academy of Popular Music Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2001. Broadcast Music Inc. honored Parton with their Icon Award in 2003, and in 2004 the U.S. Library of Congress presented her with their Living Legend Award for her contribution to the cultural heritage of the United States. This was followed in 2005 with the National Medal of Arts, the highest honor given by the U.S. government for excellence in the arts. The honors keep coming. The 2016 made for television movie, Dolly Parton’s Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love is nominated in the “Television Movie” category for the 69th Annual Emmy Awards. The film also won in the TV and Cable category at the 68th Annual Christopher Awards, which also includes the Movieguide Epiphany Prize for Television. The film served as the follow-up to her highly rated 2015 film Coat Of Many Colors, also broadcast on NBC, which won the Academy of Country Music’s Tex Ritter Award. In fall of 2017, Dolly released her first children’s album, “I Believe In You,” a collection of songs for the young and young at heart on Dolly Records through her partnership with Sony Music Nashville; and it is available
HERE . Kicking off 2018 in a momentous way, in January Parton received her first two Emmy Awards as the National Association of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) Midsouth recognized the legend’s lifetime of giving back with the Governor’s Award and also presented her the Best Community Service program trophy for her
Smoky Mountains Rise telethon, which raised more than $13 million dollars for her My People Fund which provided financial assistance to victims of the massive wildfires that impacted the Gatlinburg, Tennessee area in late November 2016. Also in January, Dolly Parton was honored with two Guinness World Records for the most decades with a Top 20 hit on
Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart and most hits on
Billboard‘s Hot Country Songs chart by a female artist. In February, Dolly presented the Imagination Library’s 100 Millionth Book to the Library of Congress to include in the collection in Washington, D.C. In 1995, Dolly Parton founded Imagination Library, a book gifting organization that mails books to children in Australia, Belize, Canada, United Kingdom and the United States.