A few days ago, I was wondering the question and I did get the answer I was looking for, the following list is the top 10 books that have the most consecutive weeks on #1 spot:
Since 2000s and more extreme in 2010s, more books reach #1 spot, but only to stay for just one single week and never to reach the glorious spot again.
But it's quite understandably, there are more and more book published (see the last graph) and you can't change the fact that each decade has only about 520 weeks, no more and no less, it's virtually that number. The number of books increases, inevitably, on average, every book can stay at #1 spot for less weeks, simply because there are more books to compete than it was decades ago.
Although books stay on #1 less, but the top 1 has 59 weeks was made in 2000s, "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown (2003-04-06–2006-04-09).
And for the three most weeks in 2010s, they are:
The data source is Wikipedia, 3,917 weeks ranging from 1942-01-04 through 2017-07-30, 764 books have reached the #1 spot. You can get the scripts and the generated files (lists and CSVs) on Gist.
- #1 41 weeks (1970-05-10–1971-02-14): "Love Story" by Erich Segal
- #2 40 weeks (1965-07-11–1966-05-01): "The Source" by James Michener
- #3 38 weeks (1972-07-02–1973-03-18): "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" by Richard Bach
- #4 33 weeks (1951-08-12–1952-03-23): "The Caine Mutiny" by Herman Wouk
- #5 32 weeks (1964-02-23–1964-09-27): "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" by John le Carré
- #6 31 weeks (1953-03-08–1953-10-04): "Désirée" by Annemarie Selinko
- #7 30 weeks (1943-03-21–1943-10-10): "The Robe" by Lloyd Douglas
- #8 29 weeks (1958-03-09–1958-09-21): "Anatomy of a Murder" by Robert Traver
- #8 29 weeks (1964-10-25–1965-05-09): "Herzog" by Saul Bellow
- #10 28 weeks (2012-03-18–2012-09-23): "Fifty Shades of Grey" by E. L. James
- #10 28 weeks (1966-05-08–1966-11-13): "Valley of the Dolls" by Jacqueline Susann
Since 2000s and more extreme in 2010s, more books reach #1 spot, but only to stay for just one single week and never to reach the glorious spot again.
But it's quite understandably, there are more and more book published (see the last graph) and you can't change the fact that each decade has only about 520 weeks, no more and no less, it's virtually that number. The number of books increases, inevitably, on average, every book can stay at #1 spot for less weeks, simply because there are more books to compete than it was decades ago.
Although books stay on #1 less, but the top 1 has 59 weeks was made in 2000s, "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown (2003-04-06–2006-04-09).
And for the three most weeks in 2010s, they are:
- #13 29 weeks (2012-03-18–2014-08-10): "Fifty Shades of Grey" by E. L. James
- #23 26 weeks (2015-02-01–2016-10-30): "The Girl" on the Train by Paula Hawkins
- #33 22 weeks (2010-01-24–2012-01-15): "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
The data source is Wikipedia, 3,917 weeks ranging from 1942-01-04 through 2017-07-30, 764 books have reached the #1 spot. You can get the scripts and the generated files (lists and CSVs) on Gist.
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