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.
Van Halen
Ranks
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2012#145 of 2213
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Albums
AlbumYearRankPointsVotesEnthusiasmKvltosisHipnessMetalismMonolithityVitality
Van Halen · A Different Kind of Truth2012#148644      
Andrew Hamlin · James Greene, Jr. · Jeffrey Morgan · Michael Deeds
Songs
SongYearRankVotesRemixSingularity
Van Halen · "Stay Frosty"2012#17930 
Jeffrey Morgan · Michael Deeds · Rob Sheffield
Similar Songs
.0202Taylor Swift · "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"  (2012)
Van Halen · "Tattoo"2012#25320 
Dave Gil de Rubio · Jeffrey Morgan
Van Halen · "She's the Woman"2012#44910 
Jeffrey Morgan
Similar Artists
.2222MC Chris
.0992Stevie Nicks
.0892Avril Lavigne
.0562New York Dolls
.0472Far East Movement
.0372Franz Ferdinand
.0302The Monkees
.0243Daft Punk
.0222Ting Tings
.0222White Lung
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com