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.
Train
Ranks
2016 
2015 
2014 
2013 
2012#1650 of 2213
2011 
2010#877 of 2582
2009#2056 of 2591
2008 
Songs
SongYearRankVotesRemixSingularity
Train · "50 Ways to Say Goodbye"2012#44910 
Kevin John
Train · "Hey Soul Sister"2010#14940 
 2009#58510 
Al Shipley · Arsenio Orteza · George A. Paul · Heidi Siegmund Cuda · Tom Lane
Similar Songs
.0832Maxwell · "Lake by the Ocean"  (2016)
.0762The Bleachers · "I Wanna Get Better"  (2014)
.0762Walk the Moon · "Shut Up and Dance"  (2015)
.0702Arctic Monkeys · "Do I Wanna Know?"  (2013)
.0652Jessie J, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj · "Bang Bang"  (2014)
.0502Little Big Town · "Girl Crush"  (2015)
.0493Gotye (ft. Kimbra) · "Somebody That I Used to Know"  (2012)
.0443Mark Ronson (ft. Bruno Mars) · "Uptown Funk"  (2015)
.0412Bruno Mars · "Locked Out of Heaven"  (2012)
.0382Black Eyed Peas · "I Gotta Feeling"  (2009)
.0312Black Keys · "Tighten Up"  (2010)
.0312Maxwell · "Pretty Wings"  (2009)
.0302Sam Smith · "Stay With Me"  (2014)
.0252Pharrell Williams · "Happy"  (2014)
.0232Katy Perry · "Teenage Dream"  (2010)
.0222Coldplay · "Viva la Vida"  (2008)
.0212Robin Thicke (ft. T.I. and Pharrell) · "Blurred Lines"  (2013)
.0202Foster the People · "Pumped Up Kicks"  (2011)
Train · "Shake Up Christmas"2010#57710 
Heidi Siegmund Cuda
Similar Artists
.8004Gotye
.5003Mark Ronson
.2962Clean Bandit
.2222Needtobreathe
.1272Capital Cities
.0803Lady Antebellum
.0742Johnny Marr
.0742Walk the Moon
.0682Bastille
.0682Mavericks
.0632Jessie J, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj
.0592Toni Braxton & Babyface
.0492Dwight Yoakam
.0472Robin Thicke
.0442Young M.A.
.0433Eric Church
.0422The Bleachers
.0403Bruno Mars
.0403Foster the People
.0402Fountains of Wayne
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com