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.
Tom Cheyney
Overall
Centricity.187#967 of 1313
Breadth.387#609 of 1329
Metalism.000#442 of 1329
2015 original ballot
Centricity.324#261 of 480
Metalism.000#85 of 483
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Mbongwana Star · From Kinshasa3019
Richard Thompson · Still203
Courtney Barnett · Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit10166
Los Lobos · Gates of Gold103
Sleater-Kinney · No Cities to Love591
Rhiannon Giddens · Tomorrow Is My Turn516
Dave Rawlings Machine · Nashville Obsolete57
Fat Freddy's Drop · Bays50
Mamak Khadem · The Road50
Marcus Miller · Afrodeezia50

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.1306Michael Lach · 2015
.1264Jeff Tamarkin · 2015
.1194Jim Bessman · 2015
.1124Steve Klinge · 2015
.1066Don Allred · 2015
.1054Brian Orloff · 2015
.1046Todd Kristel · 2015
.1034Charles R. Cross · 2015
.0994Mike Berick · 2015
.0974Steve Hochman · 2015
.0944Scott Mervis · 2015
.0934Robert Christgau · 2015
.0934Troy Farah · 2015
.0925Christopher Barton · 2015
.0914Michael Tatum · 2015
.0894Stephen Haag · 2015
.0884Nicholas Taylor · 2015
.0694David Cantwell · 2015
2012 original ballot
Centricity.135#352 of 485
Metalism.000#95 of 493
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Dr. John · Locked Down2531
David Byrne & St. Vincent · Love This Giant1510
Staff Benda Bilili · Bouger Le Monde154
Andrew Bird · Break It Yourself102
Lisa Hilton · American Impressions100
Sharon Van Etten · Tramp533
Vijay Iyer · Accelerando511
Carolina Chocolate Drops · Leaving Eden56
Adrian Sherwood · Survival & Resistance50
Bibitanga and the Selenites · 40 Degrees of Sunshine50

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.1244Thor Christensen · 2012
.1094Michael Hoinski · 2012
.0694Kasia Galazka · 2012
.0654Jennifer Vineyard · 2012
.0493Alan Ranta · 2012
.0463Britt Robson · 2012
.0463Luis Paez-Pumar · 2012
.0403Jillian Mapes · 2012
.0403Steve Klinge · 2012
.0383Shane Harrison · 2012
.0373Robert Loerzel · 2012
.0342Brent Baldwin · 2012
.0342Keith Harris · 2012
.0332James Hannaham · 2012
.0332Jose Davila · 2012
.0332Nicholas Taylor · 2012
.0332Quentin Huff · 2012
.0322Michael J. West · 2012
.0312Bob Ruggiero · 2012
.0312David Pehling · 2012
.0312Meredith Ochs · 2012
.0312Zeth Lundy · 2012
2011 original ballot
Centricity.268#390 of 693
Metalism.000#140 of 700
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Paul Simon · So Beautiful or So What2060
PJ Harvey · Let England Shake15128
Battles · Gloss Drop159
Hazmat Modine · Cicada102
Aurelio Martinez · Laru Beya101
(various artists) · Red Hot and Rio 2100
Dum Dum Girls · Only in Dreams523
War on Drugs · Slave Ambient522
David Sanchez, Stefon Harris, Christian Scott · Ninety Miles52
Fool's Gold · Leave No Trace50

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.1114Charles Johnson · 2011
.1044Gavin Edwards · 2011
.0804Steve Baltin · 2011
.0684John Vettese · 2011
.0664Kory Grow · 2011
.0654Ed Condran · 2011
.0654Holly Gleason · 2011
.0654Jeanne Fury · 2011
.0645Jennifer Vineyard · 2011
.0644Heather Phares · 2011
.0644Stephen Thomas Erlewine · 2011
.0634Michael Daddino · 2011
.0625Anthony Easton · 2011
.0624Mike Prevatt · 2011
.0624Miles Klee · 2011
.0624Steve Klinge · 2011
.0604Robert Ham · 2011
.0594James Barber · 2011
.0594Ron Hart · 2011
.0584Deborah Sprague · 2011
2010 original ballot
Centricity.095#555 of 699
Metalism.000#121 of 712
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Flying Lotus · Cosmogramma2052
Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba · I Speak Fula204
Galactic · Ya-Ka-May155
Los Lobos · Tin Can Trust109
Souljazz Orchestra · Rising Sun100
Spoon · Transference537
Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabaté · Ali & Toumani55
Balkan Beat Box · Blue Eyed Black Boy53
Chieftains · San Patricio50
Imagined Village · Empire and Love50

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.0734Bud Scoppa · 2010
.0714Jeremiah McNeil · 2010
.0714Nicolas Rueda-Sabater · 2010
.0644Nick Green · 2010
.0634Scott Cohen · 2010
.0624Simon Vozick-Levinson · 2010
.0614John Ross · 2010
.0604John Bush · 2010
.0584Michael Daddino · 2010
.0574Josh Kortbein · 2010
.0433Greg Beets · 2010
.0393Jill Ettinger · 2010
.0383Saul Austerlitz · 2010
.0362Allen St John · 2010
.0362Marty Lipp · 2010
.0362Steve Ciabattoni · 2010
.0352Enrique Lavin · 2009
.0352Randy Lewis · 2010
.0352Steve Jansen · 2010
.0342Derek Beres · 2010
.0342Lloyd Sachs · 2010
2009 original ballot
Centricity.164#446 of 683
Metalism.000#161 of 697
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Neko Case · Middle Cyclone20105
Allen Toussaint · The Bright Mississippi1521
The Very Best · Warm Heart of Africa1517
Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara · Tell No Lies106
Booker T. · Potato Hole104
Novalima · Coba Coba100
Nomo · Invisible Cities53
DJ /Rupture & Matt Shadetek · Solar Life Raft51
The Entrance Band · The Entrance Band51
Spiro · Lightbox51

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.1184Rick Mitchell · 2009
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.1044Jeff Vrabel · 2009
.1014Edd Hurt · 2009
.0925Ellis Widner · 2009
.0694Joe Tangari · 2009
.0684Daniel Durchholz · 2009
.0654L. Kent Wolgamott · 2009
.0644Otis Hart · 2009
.0644Roy Kasten · 2009
.0634Brian Orloff · 2009
.0502Chip Stern · 2009
.0453Don Allred · 2009
.0413Josh Love · 2009
.0353Nate Patrin · 2009
.0352John Dugan · 2009
.0342Frank John Hadley · 2009
.0332Banning Eyre · 2009
.0332George Varga · 2009
.0332Marty Lipp · 2009
.0332Tristram Lozaw · 2009
2008 original ballot
Centricity.137#429 of 568
Metalism.000#123 of 579
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds · Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!2560
Toumani Diabate · The Mande Variations2511
Franco & le Tout Puissant OK Jazz · Francophonic108
(various artists) · Miles From India104
James McMurtry · Just Us Kids513
Whigs · Mission Control58
Kasai Allstars · In the 7th Moon, the Chief Turned Into a Swimming Fish and Ate the Head of His Enemy by Magic55
Rachel Unthank & the Winterset · The Bairns51
Beto Villares · Beto Villares50
Return to Forever · The Anthology50

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.0352Mike Powell · 2008
.0352Shae Moseley · 2008
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.13314Banning Eyre
.07819Steve Klinge
.07810Thor Christensen
.0678Peter Margasak
.06313Rick Mitchell
.0569Marty Lipp
.05518Jennifer Vineyard
.0558Michael Hoinski
.05412Steve Hochman
.05212Michael Lach
.0529Christopher Barton
.05119Todd Kristel
.0509Matt Gewolb
.04910Roy Kasten
.0499Allen St John
.04816Daniel Durchholz
.0477Nathan Hogan
.04512Larry King
.04414Brian Orloff
.04412Dan Kois
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