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 Kids
Ranks
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2010 
2009#1118 of 2591
2008#181 of 2244
Albums
AlbumYearRankPointsVotesEnthusiasmKvltosisHipnessMetalismMonolithityVitality
Black Kids · Partie Traumatic2009#960101      
 2008#256404      
Barry Walters · Ben Sisario · Crystal Wiebe · John Elsasser · Omar Kholeif
Similar Albums
.0532Laura Marling · I Speak Because I Can  (2010)
.0282Grizzly Bear · Shields  (2012)
Songs
SongYearRankVotesRemixSingularity
Black Kids · "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You"2008#35140.857
Allison Stewart · Amber Schadewald · Ben Sisario · Ben Westhoff · Crystal Wiebe · David Cantwell · David Peisner · Glenn Gamboa · Jason Adams · Kara Manning · Liz Ohanesian · Mike Greenhaus · Rickey Wright · Robert Bishop
Similar Songs
.1162Taylor Swift · "White Horse"  (2009)
.1032Little Jackie · "The World Should Revolve Around Me"  (2008)
.1023Cults · "Go Outside"  (2011)
.1023Hayes Carll · "She Left Me for Jesus"  (2008)
.0922Lil Wayne (ft. T-Pain) · "Got Money"  (2008)
.0832Paramore · "The Only Exception"  (2010)
.0775MGMT · "Time to Pretend"  (2008)
.0762She & Him · "Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?"  (2008)
.0734Coldplay · "Viva la Vida"  (2008)
.0723Fun. (ft. Janelle Monae) · "We Are Young"  (2012)
.0612Cloud Nothings · "Stay Useless"  (2012)
.0532Metric · "Help, I'm Alive"  (2009)
.0532Weezer · "Pork and Beans"  (2008)
.0502Ida Maria · "Oh My God"  (2008)
.0482Animal Collective · "What Would I Want? Sky"  (2009)
.0482Jay-Z · "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)"  (2009)
.0434Estelle (ft. Kanye West) · "American Boy"  (2008)
.0382Grizzly Bear (ft. Michael McDonald) · "While You Wait for the Others"  (2009)
.0373Lana Del Rey · "Video Games"  (2011)
.0362Kacey Musgraves · "Merry Go 'Round"  (2012)
Similar Artists
.2613Icona Pop
.1455Estelle
.1203B.o.B
.1155Santigold
.1032The Static Jacks
.0955She & Him
.0874Jónsi
.0853Fall Out Boy
.0814Fun.
.0729MGMT
.0702Keith Urban
.0702Mark Ronson & the Business International
.0664Jay-Z
.0652Corinne Bailey Rae
.0652DJ Shadow
.0652Freeway & Jake One
.0652Little Jackie
.0645Passion Pit
.0614Sade
.0614Weezer
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com