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.
Dan Raper
Overall
Centricity.504#241 of 1313
Breadth.170#1101 of 1329
Metalism.000#442 of 1329
2009 original ballot
Centricity.504#77 of 683
Metalism.000#161 of 697
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Animal Collective · Merriweather Post Pavilion20153
Dirty Projectors · Bitte Orca10107
Grizzly Bear · Veckatimest10105
Girls · Album1062
Antony & the Johnsons · The Crying Light1029
The Very Best · Warm Heart of Africa1017
Dan Deacon · Bromst1013
John Vanderslice · Romanian Names101
Sunset Rubdown · Dragonslayer515
(various artists) · Dark Was the Night59
SongOther Votes
Animal Collective · "My Girls"75
Grizzly Bear · "Two Weeks"64
Dirty Projectors · "Stillness Is the Move"63
Matias Aguayo · "Rollerskate"7
Drums · "Let's Go Surfing"6
Cass McCombs · "Dreams Come True Girl"4
The Antlers · "Kettering"0
Discovery · "Can You Discover"0
Suckers · "It Gets Your Body Movin'"0
Thao Nguyen With the Get Down Stay Down · "Cool Yourself"0

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.20116Derek Barber
.19011Chris Norton
.18410Jean-Stephane Beriot
.1726Brooke Foster
.13913Ben Schumer
.1308Jed Lipinski
.11310Rodney Dugue
.10510Caitlin Dewey
.1039Melissa Maerz
.1035Laura Barcella
.1018Traviss Cassidy
.1016Ron Mashate
.0976Liz Colville
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.0939Luke Hackney
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.0808Steve McPherson
.0786Julie Seabaugh
.0775David Brusie
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com