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.
Steve Earle
Ranks
2016 
2015 
2014 
2013#332 of 2104
2012 
2011#338 of 2725
2010 
2009#223 of 2591
2008 
Albums
AlbumYearRankPointsVotesEnthusiasmKvltosisHipnessMetalismMonolithityVitality
Steve Earle · The Low Highway2013#345223      
Geoffrey Himes · Jeff Tamarkin · Philip Martin
Similar Albums
.0892Drive-By Truckers · Go-Go Boots  (2011)
.0742Pharrell Williams · Girl  (2014)
.0693Rosanne Cash · The River & the Thread  (2014)
.0682Elvis Costello & the Roots · Wise Up Ghost  (2013)
.0392Lucinda Williams · Little Honey  (2008)
.0372Levon Helm · Electric Dirt  (2009)
.0312Drive-By Truckers · Brighter Than Creation's Dark  (2008)
.0242Bob Dylan · The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs - Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006  (2008)
.0222The Decemberists · The King Is Dead  (2011)
Steve Earle · I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive2011#328344      
Kevin Moreau · Leslie Berman · Randy Lewis · Richard Skanse
Similar Albums
.1212Mumford & Sons · Babel  (2012)
.1212Ray Davies and the Crouch End Festival Chorus · Working Man's Cafe  (2008)
.1072Rodney Crowell · Sex & Gasoline  (2008)
.0512Hayes Carll · KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories)  (2011)
.0332Jack White · Lazaretto  (2014)
.0222The Decemberists · The King Is Dead  (2011)
Steve Earle · Townes2009#21063610.5.796.159.056  
Allen St John · Anthony DeCurtis · Craig Hlavaty · Jayson Harsin · John Walker · Rick Mitchell
Similar Albums
.1482Bill Frisell · Guitar in the Space Age!  (2014)
.1272Jakob Dylan · Women and Country  (2010)
.0563Bruce Springsteen · The Promise  (2010)
.0372Al Green · Lay It Down  (2008)
.0362Levon Helm · Electric Dirt  (2009)
.0342Rosanne Cash · The List  (2009)
.0323Paul Simon · So Beautiful or So What  (2011)
.0322Rolling Stones · Blue & Lonesome  (2016)
.0312Mavis Staples · You Are Not Alone  (2010)
.0252The Decemberists · The Hazards of Love  (2009)
Songs
SongYearRankVotesRemixSingularity
Steve Earle · "Burnin' It Down"2013#44010 
Philip Martin
Steve Earle · "Invisible"2013#44010 
Bill O'Neill
Steve Earle · "God Is God"2011#62710 
Richard Skanse
Steve Earle · "Little Emperor"2011#62710 
Rick Mitchell
Steve Earle · "Lungs"2009#58510 
John Walker
Steve Earle · "To Live Is to Fly"2009#58510 
Adam Mazmanian
Similar Artists
.2464Dave Alvin
.1535Levon Helm
.1433Bill Frisell
.1333Jakob Dylan
.1272Boys Like Girls
.1126Hayes Carll
.1126Rosanne Cash
.1112Jon Dee Graham & the Fighting Cocks
.1112Scott H. Biram
.1053Willie Nelson
.0992Buddy Guy
.0953Los Lobos
.0927Jamey Johnson
.0916Lucinda Williams
.0915Rolling Stones
.0812Amanda Shires
.0812Béla Fleck
.0812Ghost B.C.
.0784Alejandro Escovedo
.0735Randy Newman
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com