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? by Jimmy Buffett

Charting Aug 30, 1992Jan 10, 1993 · 19 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    3 crowns

    19921993

    Longest reign 2 weeks (Oct 1992) · First crown Sep 1992

Peak Power
6.85%
week of Oct 25, 1992
Career Power
125
share-weeks
Crowns
3
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
125
January 1992 – January 1993
Peak Five Years
125
January 1988 – January 1993
Top-five weeks
7
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
19
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Sep 20, 1992
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

1 book · 125 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
Where Is Joe Merchant#119125.3

At their peak

1992 in books

? by Jimmy Buffett's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1992 to January 1993. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1John Grisham498
  2. 2Stephen King351
  3. 3Danielle Steel282
  4. 4Terry McMillan241
  5. 5Michael Crichton175
  6. 6Dr. Seuss162
  7. 7Anne Rice145
  8. 8Alexandra Ripley145
  9. 9Uncredited144
  10. 10Sidney Sheldon132

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1990s.