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Noel Coward portraitNoel Coward

Charting Dec 4, 1960Jun 11, 1961 · 28 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.99%
week of Mar 26, 1961
Career Power
101
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
101
June 1960 – June 1961
Peak Five Years
101
June 1956 – June 1961
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
28
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.32%
week of Mar 5, 1961
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 · 101 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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Pomp and Circumstance#728100.8

At their peak

1960 in books

Noel Coward's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1960 to June 1961. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James A. Michener677
  2. 2Allen Drury601
  3. 3Harper Lee411
  4. 4Guiseppe di Lampedusa304
  5. 5Andre Schwarz-Bart302
  6. 6Mary Ellen Chase217
  7. 7Irving Wallace206
  8. 8Elizabeth Goudge166
  9. 9Graham Greene143
  10. 10Helen MacInnes140

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.