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.
Radio Dept.
Ranks
2016#131 of 2370
2015 
2014 
2013 
2012 
2011 
2010#83 of 2582
2009 
2008 
Albums
AlbumYearRankPointsVotesEnthusiasmKvltosisHipnessMetalismMonolithityVitality
Radio Dept. · Running Out of Love2016#12562512.4.640.387.000 .242
Brian Boone · Darryl Smyers · Dave Heaton · Laura Studarus · Liz Riley
Similar Albums
.2422Darren Hanlon · I Will Love You at All  (2010)
.1572Allo Darlin' · We Come From the Same Place  (2014)
.0922Conor Oberst · Ruminations  (2016)
.0652Allo Darlin' · Europe  (2012)
.0452Pains of Being Pure at Heart · Belong  (2011)
Radio Dept. · Clinging to a Scheme2010#881311013.1.592.962.000.484 
Andrew Hall · Dan Gibson · Dave Heaton · David Greenwald · Drew Fortune · Eric T Miller · Joshua Alston · Kenneth Partridge · Mordechai Shinefield · Todd McKenzie
Similar Albums
.1303Wavves · King of the Beach  (2010)
.0952Frankie Cosmos · Zentropy  (2014)
.0862Morrissey · Years of Refusal  (2009)
.0672Cut Copy · Zonoscope  (2011)
.0582A Sunny Day in Glasgow · Ashes Grammar  (2009)
.0582Wild Nothing · Gemini  (2010)
.0542Jens Lekman · I Know What Love Isn't  (2012)
.0462Against Me! · White Crosses  (2010)
.0442Mountain Goats · All Eternals Deck  (2011)
.0422Mountain Goats · The Life of the World to Come  (2009)
.0414Titus Andronicus · The Monitor  (2010)
.0402Bill Callahan · Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle  (2009)
.0395Beach House · Teen Dream  (2010)
.0353Yuck · Yuck  (2011)
.0352New Pornographers · Together  (2010)
.0332TV on the Radio · Seeds  (2014)
.0313St. Vincent · Actor  (2009)
.0312Yo la Tengo · Popular Songs  (2009)
.0302Green Day · 21st Century Breakdown  (2009)
.0273Spoon · They Want My Soul  (2014)
Songs
SongYearRankVotesRemixSingularity
Radio Dept. · "Swedish Guns"2016#17930 
Geoffrey Stueven · Otis Hart · Todd Olmstead
Radio Dept. · "Sloboda Narodu"2016#47910 
David Malitz
Radio Dept. · "Heaven's on Fire"2010#81100.700
Dan Weiss · Dave Heaton · David Greenwald · Ian Cohen · Joshua Alston · Kara Manning · Rachel Brodsky · Steve Klinge · Susan Moll · Tim Sendra
Similar Songs
.0512Neko Case · "Man"  (2013)
.0444Kanye West (ft. Dwele) · "Power"  (2010)
.0442Justin Bieber · "What Do You Mean?"  (2015)
.0422Joy Formidable · "Whirring"  (2011)
.0382La Roux · "Bulletproof"  (2009)
.0382Pains of Being Pure at Heart · "Young Adult Friction"  (2009)
.0302Alvvays · "Archie, Marry Me"  (2014)
Radio Dept. · "David"2010#33120 
Kimberly Chun · Scott Cohen
Radio Dept. · "Never Follow Suit"2010#57710 
Dan Gibson
Similar Artists
.1395Times New Viking
.1284Underworld
.1253Pastels
.1253Pastels & Tenniscoats
.1234Foals
.1144Wild Nothing
.1104Hospitality
.1046Belle and Sebastian
.1015Wavves
.1003Childbirth
.1003Mew
.1003Tamaryn
.0977Cut Copy
.0975Owen Pallett
.0974ILoveMakonnen
.0969Pains of Being Pure at Heart
.0953Joyce Manor
.0914Jens Lekman
.0913Girlpool
.0894Allo Darlin'
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com