This is a statistical index to the Village Voice Pazz & Jop music critics poll, generated in the process of its tabulation for the last few years.
 
Click any linked column-heading to sort a table by that column. Click any album or song for an artist profile, or any voter for a voter profile.
 
Some explanation of the various esoteric metrics:
Similarity is calculated for albums, songs and artists based on voter overlap, and for ballots and voters based on album+song+artist overlap. The ballot and voter scores are weighted by album/song/artist popularity.
Kills
Ranks
2016 
2015 
2014 
2013 
2012 
2011#78 of 2725
2010 
2009 
2008#112 of 2244
Albums
AlbumYearRankPointsVotesEnthusiasmKvltosisHipnessMetalismMonolithityVitality
Kills · Blood Pressures2011#711671610.4.629.796.077.810 
Adam Graham · Andrew Miller · Erin Thompson · Heather Muse · Jeanne Fury · Jennifer Vineyard · Jon Wiederhorn · Kristyn Pomranz · Linda Leseman · Mark Zepezauer · Matthew Perpetua · Matthew Wilder · Meredith Ochs · Michael Deeds · Sarah Ventre · Zena Tsarfin
Similar Albums
.1223David Byrne & St. Vincent · Love This Giant  (2012)
.1212BrakesBrakesBrakes · Touchdown  (2009)
.1212Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (ft. Karen O) · The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Soundtrack)  (2011)
.1072Garbage · Not Your Kind of People  (2012)
.1072Mortals · Cursed to See the Future  (2014)
.1007St. Vincent · Strange Mercy  (2011)
.0952Phantogram · Eyelid Movies  (2010)
.0862Bat for Lashes · The Bride  (2016)
.0862Genghis Tron · Board Up the House  (2008)
.0782Chelsea Wolfe · Pain Is Beauty  (2013)
.0782Cold Specks · I Predict a Graceful Expulsion  (2012)
.0782Eyehategod · Eyehategod  (2014)
.0777Adele · 21  (2011)
.0733Mastodon · The Hunter  (2011)
.0722Dum Dum Girls · End of Daze  (2012)
.0672Tombs · Path of Totality  (2011)
.0672Wolf Alice · My Love Is Cool  (2015)
.0667Fiona Apple · The Idler Wheel...  (2012)
.0624Sky Ferreira · Night Time, My Time  (2013)
.0622Lou Reed & Metallica · Lulu  (2011)
.0622Muse · The Resistance  (2009)
Kills · Midnight Boom2008#12587117.9.665.943.009.488 
Amber Schadewald · Heather Phares · Ian Mathers · Kara Manning · Linda Leseman · Lissa Townsend Rodgers · Matthew Perpetua · Mike Orme · Ricardo Baca · Scott Holter · Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Similar Albums
.1572Loscil · Monument Builders  (2016)
.1162Charlotte Hatherley · New Worlds  (2009)
.1162Wild Beasts · Smother  (2011)
.1032Foxboro Hot Tubs · Stop Drop and Roll!!!  (2008)
.0832Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan · Hawk  (2010)
.0762Metronomy · The English Riviera  (2011)
.0702Silversun Pickups · Swoon  (2009)
.0702Sleigh Bells · Bitter Rivals  (2013)
.0652Charli XCX · True Romance  (2013)
.0572Liars · Wixiw  (2012)
.0502Jenny Lewis · Acid Tongue  (2008)
.0483Spoon · Transference  (2010)
.0452Black Crowes · Before the Frost...Until the Freeze  (2009)
.0452Kills · Blood Pressures  (2011)
.0432Beastie Boys · Hot Sauce Committee Part 2  (2011)
.0403Sky Ferreira · Night Time, My Time  (2013)
.0373Grimes · Visions  (2012)
.0362Arctic Monkeys · AM  (2013)
.0304Portishead · Third  (2008)
.0302Jessie Ware · Devotion  (2012)
Songs
SongYearRankVotesRemixSingularity
Kills · "Future Starts Slow"2011#23530 
Andy Greenwald · Heather Phares · Jeanne Fury
Similar Songs
.2222Kills · "Cheap and Cheerful"  (2008)
.0282Rihanna (ft. Calvin Harris) · "We Found Love"  (2011)
.0232Katy Perry · "Teenage Dream"  (2010)
.0212Phoenix · "Lisztomania"  (2009)
Kills · "Satellite"2011#23530 
James Bradley · Kenneth Partridge · Linda Leseman
Similar Songs
.0342Grimes · "Oblivion"  (2012)
Kills · "Last Day of Magic"2008#11850.200
Amber Schadewald · Jonathan Garrett · Lissa Townsend Rodgers · Mike Orme · Ricardo Baca
Similar Songs
.0702Twin Shadow · "Five Seconds"  (2012)
.0572Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds · "Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!"  (2008)
Kills · "Cheap and Cheerful"2008#17430 
Heather Phares · Jeanne Fury · Mark Zepezauer
Similar Songs
.2222Kills · "Future Starts Slow"  (2011)
.0332Tegan and Sara · "Closer"  (2013)
.0232Katy Perry · "Teenage Dream"  (2010)
.0213Carly Rae Jepsen · "Call Me Maybe"  (2012)
Kills · "U.R.A. Fever"2008#25420 
Alec Hanley Bemis · Kristyn Pomranz
Kills · "Black Balloon"2008#45010 
Andrew Miller
Kills · "Sour Cherry"2008#45010 
Lola Emanuelli
Similar Artists
.28211Santigold
.2594Icona Pop
.1798Cults
.1763DJ Snake
.1434Röyksopp
.1375Muse
.1303Depreciation Guild
.1303Iggy Azalea
.1296Fun.
.1223Foxboro Hot Tubs
.1174Robin Thicke
.1165Goldfrapp
.1153Mark Ronson & the Business International
.1128Yuck
.1054David Byrne & St. Vincent
.1005Liars
.0994Franz Ferdinand
.0983Ladyhawke
.0983Massive Attack
.0943Margaret Glaspy
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com