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.
Black Sabbath
Ranks
2016#1615 of 2370
2015 
2014 
2013#72 of 2104
2012 
2011 
2010 
2009 
2008#1453 of 2244
Albums
AlbumYearRankPointsVotesEnthusiasmKvltosisHipnessMetalismMonolithityVitality
Black Sabbath · 132013#65120913.3.802.651.321  
Alex Henderson · Andrew Hamlin · Daniel Brockman · Hank Shteamer · Kory Grow · Marcello Carlin · Nathan Carson · Phil Freeman · Roger Lotring
Similar Albums
.1782Fear Factory · Mechanize  (2010)
.1782Los Tigres Del Norte · La Granja  (2009)
.1782Suffocation · Pinnacle of Bedlam  (2013)
.1272Anthrax · Worship Music  (2011)
.1272Marilyn Manson · The Pale Emperor  (2015)
.0992Gojira · The Way of All Flesh  (2008)
.0992Vektor · Terminal Redux  (2016)
.0892AC/DC · Black Ice  (2008)
.0812Alice in Chains · Black Gives Way to Blue  (2009)
.0812Ghost · Opus Eponymous  (2011)
.0812Metallica · Hardwired... to Self-Destruct  (2016)
.0812The Strokes · Angles  (2011)
.0742Kvelertak · Meir  (2013)
.0742Opeth · Watershed  (2008)
.0592New Order · Music Complete  (2015)
.0442Carcass · Surgical Steel  (2013)
.0362Foo Fighters · Wasting Light  (2011)
.0362Savages · Adore Life  (2016)
.0332Metallica · Death Magnetic  (2008)
.0252Queens of the Stone Age · ...Like Clockwork  (2013)
Black Sabbath · The Rules of Hell2008#143271      
Roger Lotring
Songs
SongYearRankVotesRemixSingularity
Black Sabbath · "Season of the Dead"2016#26820 
Daniel Brockman · Kory Grow
Black Sabbath · "God Is Dead?"2013#24120 
Kory Grow · Nathan Carson
Black Sabbath · "Live Forever"2013#44010 
Catherine Lewis
Black Sabbath · "Loner"2013#44010 
Alex Henderson
Similar Artists
.1672Antemasque
.1672Fear Factory
.1402Body Count
.1402Cannibal Corpse
.1402Danzig
.1402John Cale
.1212Black Star Riders
.1212Los Tigres Del Norte
.1212Motörhead
.1212Suffocation
.0983Opeth
.0952Ghost B.C.
.0952Marilyn Manson
.0943AC/DC
.0903Ghost
.0862Anthrax
.0862Meshuggah
.0794Metallica
.0782Vektor
.0722Windhand
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com