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Billy Collins

Charting Nov 10, 2013Oct 23, 2016 · 4 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.79%
week of Nov 24, 2013
Career Power
10
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
8
December 2012 – November 2013
Peak Five Years
10
October 2011 – October 2016
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
4
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.16%
week of Nov 17, 2013
Comebacks
0
none detected

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction

2 books · 10 share-weeks of Career Power

Power contributed is what each book earned this author: their weekly Power Share, split across their books (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Book Power is the book's own figure, the same for every author on it. Bar length compares books within this list.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Aimless Love#1238.0
The Rain in Portugal#1512.1

At their peak

2012 in books

Billy Collins's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 2012 to November 2013. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Gillian Flynn367
  2. 2James Patterson243
  3. 3Dan Brown241
  4. 4Khaled Hosseini182
  5. 5John Grisham163
  6. 6David Baldacci146
  7. 7Robert Galbraith127
  8. 8Nicholas Sparks83
  9. 9Stephen King82
  10. 10Janet Evanovich79

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2010s.