According to Official Guinness Records,
Dolly Parton (USA) has scored 107 hits on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart, from her 1967 debut with "Dumb Blonde" to "Jolene", featuring the US a cappella quintet Pentatonix, which debuted at No.18 on the chart dated 8 October 2016. George Jones remains the country artist with the most hits overall – 154 between 1955 and 2013. A handful of Jones' chart entries pre-date Billboard's first combined sales and radio airplay country chart, published on 20 October 1958.
Parton holds a number of other US country records, including most No.1 hits (25 – shared with Reba McEntire;total excludes "Forever Country" by Artists of Then, Now & Forever) and the longest span of No.1 hits (35 years 26 days between "Joshua" (No.1 on 6 February 1971) and "When I Get Where I'm Going" (No.1 on 4 March 2006;record excludes "Forever Country"), and with the No.18 debut of "Jolene" she became the first artist – male or female – with Top 20 US country hits in six different decades. She has had 74 Top 20 hits in total since 1967.
Twenty-one of Parton's 107 country hits were achieved as a duo with fellow American singer Porter Wagoner (1927–2007).
Parton was a key member of Artists of Then, Now & Forever, a multi-act collective who debuted at No.1 on the chart dated 8 October 2016 (the same chart on which "Jolene" was a new entry) with "Forever Country", in celebration of 50 years of the Country Music Association Awards. "Forever Country" is a medley of John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads", Willie Nelson's "On the Road Again" and "I Will Always Love You", arguably Parton's most famous and best-loved recording, and the veteran singer appears in the last few seconds of the accompanying video to finish off the medley. Parton is not individually credited on "Forever Country", and therefore the track is not included in her total of 107 hits on the Hot Country Songs chart.
Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart was inaugurated on 20 October 1958, and was then named Hot C&W Sides. The name and length of the chart has changed over the years, but since 30 April 2005 the 60-position Hot Country Songs chart has been published each week by Billboard.
For a complete list of 2016 records, please visit 2016 Guinness Records in United States.