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.
Nelson George
Overall
Centricity.502#244 of 1313
Breadth.190#1009 of 1329
Metalism.000#442 of 1329
2016 original ballot
Centricity.502#159 of 542
Metalism.000#75 of 550
AlbumPointsOther Votes
A Tribe Called Quest · We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service20184
Anderson .Paak · Malibu2072
Maxwell · blackSUMMERS'night2011
NxWorries · Yes Lawd!1012
BeyoncĂ© · Lemonade5179
Solange · A Seat at the Table5116
Childish Gambino · Awaken, My Love!523
Michael Kiwanuka · Love & Hate513
Bruno Mars · 24K Magic56
Kandace Springs · Soul Eyes50
SongOther Votes
Rae Sremmurd (ft. Gucci Mane) · "Black Beatles"57
Drake · "Hotline Bling"2
Ro James · "Permission"2
Gallant · "Weight in Gold"1
Alex Newell & DJ Cassidy · "Kill the Lights"0
Chance the Rapper (Ty Dolla Sign, Raury, BJ the Chicago Kid) · "Blessings"0
Christina Aguilera · "Telepathy"0
Lianne la Havas · "Unstoppable"0
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anthony Ramos, Dave Diggs · "My Shot"0
Maxwell · "1990X"0

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.1789H. Drew Blackburn · 2016
.17610Rico Washington · 2016
.17510Del Cowie · 2016
.17510Steve Forstneger · 2016
.1679Trent Fitzgerald · 2016
.16410Nate Patrin · 2016
.1638Darrell M. McNeill · 2016
.1629Ross Scarano · 2016
.1599David Grossman · 2016
.1589David MacFadden-Elliot · 2016
.1559E.J. Friedman · 2016
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.1549Tim Grierson · 2016
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.17210Alex Gale
.1488Darrell M. McNeill
.1429David MacFadden-Elliot
.1348Laur Jackson
.1148Joe Levy
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.1098Andrew Frisicano
.09910Charlie Braxton
.09713Craig D. Lindsey
.09710Rico Washington
.08910Dan Rys
.07910H. Drew Blackburn
.0779E.J. Friedman
.0738Reiff, Corbin Reiff
.06913Del Cowie
.06612Ryan Patrick
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.0648Edna Gundersen
.0638Austin Reed
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com