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.
Rokia Traoré
Ranks
2016 
2015 
2014 
2013#215 of 2104
2012 
2011 
2010#1035 of 2582
2009#135 of 2591
2008#509 of 2244
Albums
AlbumYearRankPointsVotesEnthusiasmKvltosisHipnessMetalismMonolithityVitality
Rokia Traoré · Beautiful Africa2013#1804058.0.820.750.000  
Ellis Widner · Larry King · Randall Grass · Steve Dollar · Steve Kiviat
Similar Albums
.2422Ry Cooder & Corridos Famosos · Live in San Francisco  (2013)
.1902Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell · Old Yellow Moon  (2013)
.1713William Bell · This Is Where I Live  (2016)
.1484Bombino · Nomad  (2013)
.1332Willie Nelson/Wynton Marsalis · Two Men With the Blues  (2008)
.1162Noura Mint Seymali · Tzenni  (2014)
.1162Tal National · Kaani  (2013)
.1162The Very Best · Mtmtmk  (2012)
.1073Oumou Sangaré · Seya  (2009)
.0922Bettye LaVette · Thankful N' Thoughtful  (2012)
.0832Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba · Jama Ko  (2013)
.0702Rokia Traoré · Tchamantché  (2009)
.0482Iris DeMent · Sing the Delta  (2012)
.0482Lucinda Williams · Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone  (2014)
.0382Ashley Monroe · The Blade  (2015)
.0382Neil Young & Crazy Horse · Psychedelic Pill  (2012)
.0362Levon Helm · Electric Dirt  (2009)
.0312Mavis Staples · You Are Not Alone  (2010)
.0302Rosanne Cash · The River & the Thread  (2014)
.0292Leonard Cohen · Popular Problems  (2014)
Rokia Traoré · Tchamantché2010#878101      
 2009#11589810.9.651.147.000  
 2008#443202      
Derk Richardson · James Hannaham · Larry Birnbaum · Lee Froehlich · Mark Jenkins · Marty Lipp · Randall Grass · Randall Roberts · Rob Michaels · Steve Kiviat · Steve Klinge
Similar Albums
.2313Staff Benda Bilili · Bouger Le Monde  (2012)
.2155Oumou Sangaré · Seya  (2009)
.2073Noura Mint Seymali · Tzenni  (2014)
.2073The Very Best · Mtmtmk  (2012)
.2044Bombino · Agadez  (2011)
.1583Mary Halvorson Octet · Away With You  (2016)
.1572Henry Threadgill Zooid · Tomorrow Sunny/The Revelry, SPP  (2012)
.1572Jorge Drexler · Bailar En la Cueva  (2014)
.1572Luisa Maita · Lero-Lero  (2010)
.1332Cheikh Lo · Jamm  (2011)
.1332Khaira Arby · Timbuktu Tarab  (2010)
.1332Rokia Traore · Ne So  (2016)
.1162Fatoumata Diawara · Fatou  (2012)
.1162King Sunny Ade · Bábá Mo Túndé  (2010)
.1162Marianne Faithfull · Easy Come, Easy Go  (2009)
.1162(various artists) · Nigeria Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds & Nigerian Blues 1970-6  (2008)
.1032Rokia Traoré · Beautiful Africa  (2013)
.0922Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabaté · Ali & Toumani  (2010)
.0922Allen Toussaint · American Tunes  (2016)
.0922Tal National · Kaani  (2013)
Similar Artists
.2646Oumou Sangaré
.2208Bombino
.1883Jennifer Hudson
.1713Trombone Shorty
.1463Mary Halvorson Octet
.1363Noura Mint Seymali
.1363William Bell
.1332Cheikh Lo
.1332Ry Cooder & Corridos Famosos
.1283Staff Benda Bilili
.1162Caetano Veloso
.1162Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell
.1162Jorge Drexler
.1162Khaira Arby
.1162Luisa Maita
.1162Rokia Traore
.1095Tinariwen
.1032Fatoumata Diawara
.1032King Sunny Ade
.1032Mary Halvorson
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com