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Plum Sykes

Charting Apr 25, 2004May 14, 2006 · 16 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.86%
week of Jul 11, 2004
Career Power
54
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
49
August 2003 – July 2004
Peak Five Years
54
May 2001 – May 2006
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
16
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.55%
week of Jun 20, 2004
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 · 54 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
Bergdorf Blondes#71448.9
The Debutante DivorcÉE#1324.8

At their peak

2003 in books

Plum Sykes's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 2003 to July 2004. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Dan Brown843
  2. 2Mitch Albom491
  3. 3John Grisham304
  4. 4James Patterson188
  5. 5Danielle Steel150
  6. 6Stephen King132
  7. 7Janet Evanovich109
  8. 8Tom Clancy97
  9. 9Patricia Cornwell86
  10. 10Catherine Coulter86

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 2000s.