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.
Witchcraft
Ranks
2016 
2015 
2014 
2013 
2012#167 of 2213
2011 
2010 
2009 
2008#1367 of 2244
Albums
AlbumYearRankPointsVotesEnthusiasmKvltosisHipnessMetalismMonolithityVitality
Witchcraft · Legend2012#15262610.3.819.847.409  
Albert Mudrian · A.S. Van Dorston · Mike R. Meyer · Nick Green · Richard Skanse · Zachary Smith
Similar Albums
.2222Elder · Dead Roots Stirring  (2011)
.2222Evoken · Atra Mors  (2012)
.2222Graveyard · Hisingen Blues  (2011)
.2222Graveyard · Lights Out  (2012)
.2003Baroness · Purple  (2015)
.1823SubRosa · More Constant Than the Gods  (2013)
.1782Municipal Waste · The Fatal Feast  (2012)
.1782Wolf People · Fain  (2013)
.1684Carcass · Surgical Steel  (2013)
.1482Elder · Lore  (2015)
.1482Torche · Songs for Singles  (2010)
.1272Godflesh · A World Lit Only by Fire  (2014)
.1272Julie Christmas · The Bad Wife  (2010)
.1253Pallbearer · Sorrow and Extinction  (2012)
.1194Baroness · Yellow & Green  (2012)
.1113Agalloch · Marrow of the Spirit  (2010)
.1112Royal Thunder · Cvi  (2012)
.0992Pig Destroyer · Book Burner  (2012)
.0913Pallbearer · Foundations of Burden  (2014)
.0833Mastodon · The Hunter  (2011)
Witchcraft · The Alchemist2008#135391      
Cecile Cloutier
Songs
SongYearRankVotesRemixSingularity
Witchcraft · "Ghosts House"2012#44910 
A.S. Van Dorston
Witchcraft · "White Light Suicide"2012#44910 
Richard Skanse
Similar Artists
.5054Graveyard
.2052Evoken
.1672Bettie Serveert
.1672The Ocean
.1574Carcass
.1475Pallbearer
.1402Coliseum
.1402Elder
.1402Municipal Waste
.1402Purson
.1402Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats
.1303SubRosa
.1223Enslaved
.1212Godflesh
.1212Tragically Hip
.1072Julie Christmas
.0952Thou
.0943Ghost
.0914Kylesa
.0903Agalloch
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com