Dusty Springfield "Billboard" 200, and at the time, went platinum (100,000 units) in Canada alone. "Son of a Preacher Man" helped the soundtrack album sell over 2 million copies in the US, and it reached No. 21 on the charts. During September and October 1969 Dusty hosted her third and final BBC musical variety series (her fourth variety series overall), "Decidedly Dusty" (co-hosted by Valentine Dyall). All eight episodes were later wiped from the BBC archives, and to date the only surviving footage consists of domestic audio recordings. By the start of the 1970s Dusty Springfield was a major star, though her
Dusty Springfield placed among the top 25 female artists of all time by readers of "Mojo" magazine (May 1999), editors of "Q" magazine (January 2002), and a panel of artists on VH1 TV channel (August 2007). In 2008, Dusty appeared at No. 35 on the "Rolling Stone"s "100 Greatest Singers of All Time". In the 1960s she topped a number of popularity polls, including "Melody Maker"s Best International Vocalist for 1966; in 1965 she was the first British singer to top the "New Musical Express" readers' polls for Female Singer, and topped that poll again in 1966, 1967, and 1969 as well