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Joan Collins

Charting Oct 9, 1988Nov 13, 1988 · 6 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.77%
week of Nov 13, 1988
Career Power
21
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
21
November 1987 – November 1988
Peak Five Years
21
November 1983 – November 1988
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
6
weeks with chart power
Dominance
5.50%
week of Oct 30, 1988
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 · 21 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.

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At their peak

1987 in books

Joan Collins's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1987 to November 1988. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Tom Wolfe520
  2. 2Danielle Steel399
  3. 3Tom Clancy353
  4. 4Robert Ludlum270
  5. 5Stephen King260
  6. 6James A. Michener241
  7. 7Gabriel Garcia Marquez209
  8. 8Scott Turow195
  9. 9Rosamunde Pilcher173
  10. 10Judith Krantz139

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.