Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Jimmy Buffett
Charting Oct 22, 1989 → Jun 8, 2008 · 39 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.36%
- week of Jan 21, 1990
- Career Power
- 191
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 111
- May 1989 – April 1990
- Peak Five Years
- 111
- May 1985 – April 1990
- Top-five weeks
- 6
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 39
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Dec 19, 2004
- Comebacks
- 1
- Dec 2004, after 15 quiet years
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
3 books · 191 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tales from Margaritaville | #4 | 26 | 110.7 | ||
| A Salty Piece of Land | #3 | 11 | 67.1 | ||
| Swine Not? | #6 | 2 | 12.8 |
At their peak
1989 in books →Jimmy Buffett's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1989 to April 1990. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Tom Clancy381
- 2Danielle Steel261
- 3John le Carré235
- 4Amy Tan226
- 5Stephen King190
- 6Mary Higgins Clark187
- 7James A. Michener168
- 8Frederick Forsyth150
- 9Martin Cruz Smith150
- 10P.D. James134
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.