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.
Pretenders
Ranks
2016#293 of 2370
2015 
2014 
2013 
2012 
2011 
2010 
2009#660 of 2591
2008#166 of 2244
Albums
AlbumYearRankPointsVotesEnthusiasmKvltosisHipnessMetalismMonolithityVitality
Pretenders · Alone2016#395202      
Carol Cooper · Holly George-Warren
Similar Albums
.0922Glen Campbell · Ghost on the Canvas  (2011)
Pretenders · Break Up the Concrete2009#578202      
 2008#1617088.8.769.643.000  
Adam Mazmanian · Al Choman · Andrew Nash · Glenn Gamboa · Holly George-Warren · Larry King · Melissa Ruggieri · Oliver Hall · Roger Lotring
Similar Albums
.1374My Morning Jacket · Circuital  (2011)
.1264Lucinda Williams · Little Honey  (2008)
.1212John Hiatt · Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns  (2011)
.0782Bob Dylan · The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964 (The Bootleg Series Vol. 9)  (2010)
.0763Levon Helm · Electric Dirt  (2009)
.0722Neil Young · Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 1968  (2008)
.0683Kings of Leon · Only by the Night  (2008)
.0672Lucinda Williams · Blessed  (2011)
.0623R.E.M. · Accelerate  (2008)
.0582Bob Mould · Beauty and Ruin  (2014)
.0513Bob Dylan · The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs - Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006  (2008)
.0513Bruce Springsteen · Wrecking Ball  (2012)
.0513Coldplay · Viva la Vida, or Death and All His Friends  (2008)
.0512Elvis Costello and the Imposters · Momofuku  (2008)
.0512Jenny Lewis · Acid Tongue  (2008)
.0482Buddy & Julie Miller · Written in Chalk  (2009)
.0462Robert Plant · Lullaby and...The Ceaseless Roar  (2014)
.0442Black Keys · Turn Blue  (2014)
.0442Lucinda Williams · Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone  (2014)
.0423Wilco · Wilco (The Album)  (2009)
Songs
SongYearRankVotesRemixSingularity
Pretenders · "Holy Commotion"2016#12640 
Bill Holmes · George A. Paul · Holly George-Warren · Steve Reynolds
Similar Songs
.2052Avett Brothers · "Ain't No Man"  (2016)
.2052Ryan Adams · "Bad Blood"  (2016)
.1672Capital Cities · "Safe and Sound"  (2013)
.1672Pearl Jam · "Sirens"  (2013)
.0782R.E.M. · "Supernatural Superserious"  (2008)
.0512Mumford & Sons · "Little Lion Man"  (2010)
.0382Avett Brothers · "I & Love & You"  (2009)
.0302Sam Smith · "Stay With Me"  (2014)
Pretenders · "Alone"2016#26820 
L. Kent Wolgamott · Steve Rosen
Similar Songs
.1332The Monkees · "Me & Magdalena"  (2016)
.0292Alabama Shakes · "Hold On"  (2012)
Pretenders · "Boots of Chinese Plastic"2008#17430 
Charles Johnson · Holly George-Warren · Marianne Meyer
Similar Artists
.5805Gotye
.4174Mark Ronson
.1463Cold War Kids
.1414Mudcrutch
.1363The dB's
.1354Bettye LaVette
.1254Fountains of Wayne
.1206Ryan Adams
.1203Airborne Toxic Event
.1164The Vaccines
.1162Boss Martians
.1162Chris Cornell
.1133The Shins
.1073Cheap Trick
.1032Norah Jones and Billie Joe Armstrong
.1032Peter Case
.1032Steel Train
.0984Killers
.0973Elvis Costello and the Imposters
.0973Garland Jeffreys
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com