Dolly Parton tweeted with a wink on Sunday to announce her TikTok membership, “Better late than never.”
The 11-time Grammy winner launched her @DollyParton TikTok account and shared “Berry Pie,” a holiday baking song inspired by classic bluegrass genres, exclusively on TikTok as a sound for users to utilize in their own films.
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Her first TikTok, backed with her hit 9 to 5 and was captioned, “I have arrived!”
According to the ByteDance-owned app, Parton is already extremely well-liked on TikTok. Videos with the hashtags #DollyParton and #DollyTok have garnered 6.4 billion video views as of right now. According to TikTok, the #DollyTok subcommunity celebrates her songs, movies, and larger-than-life presence through daily postings. The most popular Dolly Parton songs on TikTok are 9 to 5, Jolene, and Islands in the Stream, a number-one duet she recorded with the late Kenny Rogers.
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Parton is the most honored female country singer-songwriter of all time. She has 26 singles that have reached No. 1 on the Billboard country charts and 25 RIAA-certified gold, platinum, and multiplatinum honors. She also has 110 songs that have charted over the past 50+ years and 47 top 10 country albums in her career, which is a record for any singer.
Parton was honored by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame last month. Diamonds & Rhinestones: The Greatest Hits Collection, her most recent greatest hits CD, and her NBC special Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas both debuted on December 1. She has also received an Emmy in 2021 for Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square, a television movie.
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Parton also is the first artist to have topped The Adult Contemporary, Christian AC Songs, Hot Country Songs, Christian Airplay, Country Airplay, and Dance/Mix Show Airplay. She made history by being the first country musician to receive the Grammy MusiCares Person of the Year award from NARAS.
