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.
N.E.R.D.
Ranks
2016 
2015 
2014 
2013 
2012 
2011 
2010#474 of 2582
2009 
2008#206 of 2244
Albums
AlbumYearRankPointsVotesEnthusiasmKvltosisHipnessMetalismMonolithityVitality
N.E.R.D. · Nothing2010#437263      
Ian Steaman · Shawn Edwards · Steve Knopper
Similar Albums
.0522Tinariwen · Tassili  (2011)
N.E.R.D. · Seeing Sounds2008#247424      
Darrell M McNeill · Jem Aswad · Justin Strout · Timothy Cooper
Similar Albums
.0433Raphael Saadiq · The Way I See It  (2008)
.0272Q-Tip · The Renaissance  (2008)
Songs
SongYearRankVotesRemixSingularity
N.E.R.D. · "Hypnotize U"2010#57710 
Brad Nelson
N.E.R.D. · "Everyone Nose (All the Girls Standing in the Line for the Bathroom)"2008#14040 
Arielle Castillo · Darrell M McNeill · James Hunter · Steve Knopper
N.E.R.D. · "Sooner or Later"2008#25420 
Craig D Lindsey · Mosi Reeves
Similar Songs
.0832Q-Tip · "Gettin' Up"  (2008)
N.E.R.D. · "Spaz"2008#25420 
Brandon Geist · Vijith Assar
Similar Songs
.0242Lady Gaga · "Paparazzi"  (2009)
Similar Artists
.1572DJ Snake
.1572Jay Rock
.1283B.o.B
.1203Tricky
.1162Cage
.1032A.R. Rahman
.1032Tweet
.1014Laura Mvula
.0922Air
.0794Q-Tip
.0734Crystal Castles
.0702Corinne Bailey Rae
.0666Raphael Saadiq
.0652Machinedrum
.0633Tinashe
.0612Flo Rida
.0612Massive Attack
.0535Maxwell
.0533Mary J. Blige
.0502Willow Smith
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com