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.
John Legend & the Roots
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2010#96 of 2582
2009 
2008#183 of 2244
Albums
AlbumYearRankPointsVotesEnthusiasmKvltosisHipnessMetalismMonolithityVitality
John Legend & the Roots · Wake Up!2010#781431311.0.709.622.0001.000 
Anthony DeCurtis · Brian Braiker · Chris Neal · Darrell M McNeill · David Cantwell · Derek Beres · Eugene Holley, Jr. · Franklin Paul · Kevin O'Hare · Omar Kholeif · Randall Grass · Steve Pick · Thomas Hauner
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.1943Robert Glasper Experiment · Black Radio 2  (2013)
.1402Dom Flemons · Prospect Hill  (2014)
.1402Kindred the Family Soul · Love Has No Recession  (2011)
.1402Melvin Gibbs' Elevated Entity · The Ancients Speak  (2009)
.1212Bombay Dub Orchestra · 3 Cities  (2008)
.1093Carolina Chocolate Drops · Genuine Negro Jig  (2010)
.1072Esperanza Spalding · Radio Music Society  (2012)
.1072Gregory Porter · Liquid Spirit  (2013)
.1072Living Colour · The Chair in the Doorway  (2009)
.0952Gregory Porter · Be Good  (2012)
.0952Tony Allen · Secret Agent  (2010)
.0952Vieux Farka Touré · Fondo  (2009)
.0925Cee Lo Green · The Lady Killer  (2010)
.0862Elvis Costello · National Ransom  (2010)
.0862Norah Jones · The Fall  (2009)
.0825Maxwell · BLACKsummers'night  (2009)
.0782Chuck Prophet · ¡Let Freedom Ring!  (2009)
.0782Meshell Ndegeocello · Comet, Come to Me  (2014)
.0782Meshell Ndegeocello · Devil's Halo  (2009)
.0782Noisettes · Wild Young Hearts  (2009)
.0782Seun Anikulapo Kuti & Egypt 80 · Seun Kuti + Fela's Egypt 80  (2008)
John Legend & the Roots · Evolver2008#174654      
Cary Darling · Judson Kilpatrick · Sonia Murray · Timothy Cooper
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.2052Usher · Here I Stand  (2008)
.0864Coldplay · Viva la Vida, or Death and All His Friends  (2008)
.0342Ne-Yo · Year of the Gentleman  (2008)
Songs
SongYearRankVotesRemixSingularity
John Legend & the Roots · "Everybody Knows"2008#45010 
Cary Darling
Similar Artists
.2073Musiq Soulchild
.1883Keri Hilson
.1583Vieux Farka Touré
.1455Estelle
.1414Robin Thicke
.1332Angie Stone
.1283Gregory Porter
.1203Fantasia
.1164Carolina Chocolate Drops
.1162Dom Flemons
.1162Keyshia Cole
.1162Mark Ronson
.1162Melvin Gibbs' Elevated Entity
.1032Bombay Dub Orchestra
.1032John Legend
.1023Chuck Prophet
.1023Jill Scott
.0922Joe
.0922Kindred the Family Soul
.0922Living Colour
.0922Raul Malo
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com