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.
Alice in Chains
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2010#1947 of 2582
2009#150 of 2591
2008 
Albums
AlbumYearRankPointsVotesEnthusiasmKvltosisHipnessMetalismMonolithityVitality
Alice in Chains · Black Gives Way to Blue2009#15085810.6.870.624.221  
Adem Tepedelen · Brandon Geist · Jay Lustig · Kevin Moreau · Kory Grow · Lissa Townsend Rodgers · Roger Lotring · Steve Baltin
Similar Albums
.3533Narrows · New Distances  (2009)
.1902Fear Factory · Mechanize  (2010)
.1032Gojira · The Way of All Flesh  (2008)
.0762Black Sabbath · 13  (2013)
.0762Cobalt · Gin  (2009)
.0762Muse · The Resistance  (2009)
.0762Silversun Pickups · Swoon  (2009)
.0653Gaslight Anthem · The '59 Sound  (2008)
.0572Shelby Lynne · Just a Little Lovin'  (2008)
.0362Al Green · Lay It Down  (2008)
.0362Foo Fighters · Wasting Light  (2011)
.0313Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds · Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!  (2008)
.0312Green Day · 21st Century Breakdown  (2009)
.0292K'Naan · Troubadour  (2009)
Songs
SongYearRankVotesRemixSingularity
Alice in Chains · "Your Decision"2010#33110 
 2009#58510 
Kevin Moreau · Laina Dawes
Alice in Chains · "Check My Brain"2009#14550.800
Brandon Geist · David Goldstein · DX Ferris · J.D. Considine · Tim Grierson
Similar Songs
.1162Flo Rida (ft. T-Pain) · "Low"  (2008)
.0532Katy Perry · "I Kissed a Girl"  (2008)
.0432Gorillaz (ft. Mos Def and Bobby Womack) · "Stylo"  (2010)
.0382Disclosure (ft. Sam Smith) · "Latch"  (2013)
.0222Rihanna (ft. Drake) · "Work"  (2016)
.0212Robin Thicke (ft. T.I. and Pharrell) · "Blurred Lines"  (2013)
Similar Artists
.2733Narrows
.2733Slipknot
.2725Slayer
.1763Meshuggah
.1403Flo Rida
.1402Fear Factory
.1402How to Destroy Angels
.1223Rush
.1212Jane's Addiction
.1212Rammstein
.1212Street Sweeper Social Club
.1212This Moment in Black History
.1093New Order
.1072Old Man Gloom
.0952Deadmau5
.0952Genghis Tron
.0952Neurosis
.0943Opeth
.0903Cobalt
.0864Santigold
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com