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.
Elvis Costello
Ranks
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2011 
2010#319 of 2582
2009#148 of 2591
2008 
Albums
AlbumYearRankPointsVotesEnthusiasmKvltosisHipnessMetalismMonolithityVitality
Elvis Costello · National Ransom2010#2754367.2.730.488.000  
Chris M. Junior · Chris Neal · Eric Broome · Ken Rayes · Rick Petreycik · Steve Pick
Similar Albums
.1782J.D. Souther · If the World Was You  (2008)
.1272Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey · Here and Now  (2009)
.1112The Fireman · Electric Arguments  (2008)
.0992Kings of Leon · Mechanical Bull  (2013)
.0592John Legend & the Roots · Wake Up!  (2010)
.0562Elvis Costello and the Imposters · Momofuku  (2008)
.0483The Decemberists · The King Is Dead  (2011)
.0472Black Keys · Turn Blue  (2014)
.0403Randy Newman · Harps and Angels  (2008)
.0402Leonard Cohen · Live in London  (2009)
.0402My Morning Jacket · Circuital  (2011)
.0392Adele · 25  (2015)
.0362Alejandro Escovedo · Real Animal  (2008)
.0362Levon Helm · Electric Dirt  (2009)
.0342Metallica · Death Magnetic  (2008)
.0332Beck · Modern Guilt  (2008)
.0322Green Day · 21st Century Breakdown  (2009)
.0302Neil Young · Le Noise  (2010)
.0292R.E.M. · Accelerate  (2008)
.0262Dr. John · Locked Down  (2012)
Elvis Costello · Secret, Profane & Sugarcane2009#13396109.6.791.177.007  
Allen St John · Bobby Reed · Bobby Tanzilo · Dan Aloi · Ken Rayes · Larry King · Mike Berick · Phil Sutcliffe · Ricardo Baca · Ron Hart
Similar Albums
.1854Elvis Costello and the Imposters · Momofuku  (2008)
.1763Bruce Springsteen · High Hopes  (2014)
.1402Dave and Phil Alvin · Common Ground  (2014)
.1402Patty Loveless · Mountain Soul II  (2009)
.1402Richard Thompson · Electric  (2013)
.1212Nathaniel Rateliff · In Memory of Loss  (2010)
.1212Thompson · Family  (2014)
.0793Lucinda Williams · Little Honey  (2008)
.0793Magnetic Fields · Distortion  (2008)
.0733Rosanne Cash · The List  (2009)
.0722Neil Young · Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 1968  (2008)
.0695Paul Simon · So Beautiful or So What  (2011)
.0694Avett Brothers · I and Love and You  (2009)
.0683Rolling Stones · Blue & Lonesome  (2016)
.0672Charlie Haden Family & Friends · Rambling Boy  (2008)
.0672Los Lobos · Tin Can Trust  (2010)
.0643Rosanne Cash · The River & the Thread  (2014)
.0623R.E.M. · Accelerate  (2008)
.0622Kathleen Edwards · Asking for Flowers  (2008)
.0582U2 · Songs of Innocence  (2014)
Songs
SongYearRankVotesRemixSingularity
Elvis Costello · "Sulphur to Sugarcane"2009#58510 
Dave Lindquist
Similar Artists
.2195Elvis Costello and the Imposters
.1094Levon Helm
.1072Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women
.1072Dave and Phil Alvin
.1072J.D. Souther
.1036Neil Young
.0952Joan Osborne
.0952Nathaniel Rateliff
.0952Raul Malo
.0952Vintage Trouble
.0943Los Lobos
.0864Pearl Jam
.0862Chely Wright
.0862Jamestown Revival
.0862Lights
.0862Patty Loveless
.0862Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey
.0862Thompson
.0825Mumford & Sons
.0823Nick Lowe
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com