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.
Jeffrey Silverstein
Overall
Centricity.110#1101 of 1281
Breadth.222#918 of 1297
Metalism.000#425 of 1297
2014 original ballot
Centricity.110#484 of 601
Metalism.000#97 of 612
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Angel Olsen · Burn Your Fire for No Witness1064
Steve Gunn · Way Out Weather1013
Strand of Oaks · Heal108
Ultimate Painting · Ultimate Painting105
Natural Child · Dancin' With Wolves102
Sam Amidon · Lily-O102
Kevin Morby · Still Life101
Pure X · Angel101
Julie Byrne · Rooms With Walls and Windows100
Woodsman · Self-Titled100
SongOther Votes
Real Estate · "Talking Backwards"9
Father John Misty · "Bored in the USA"5
William Tyler · "Whole New Dude"4
Damien Jurado · "Silver Timothy"2
Tobias Jesso Jr · "Hollywood"1
The Abigails · "Medication"0
Ladada · "Comets"0
Natalie Prass · "Why Don't You Believe in Me?"0
Quilt · "Arctic Shark"0
Woods · "Moving to the Left"0

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.0674Amanda Petrusich · 2014
.0654Sean Maloney · 2014
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.0634John Hendrickson · 2014
.0634Sarah Ventre · 2014
.0624E.J. Friedman · 2014
.0624Phil Cosores · 2014
.0614Joshua Terry · 2014
.0604Michael Krugman · 2014
.0594Aaron Frank · 2014
.0594Ben Salmon · 2014
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.0785Artemis Thomas-Hansard
.0624E.J. Friedman
.0606Joshua Terry
.0574Aaron Frank
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.0458Max Blau
.0374Sean Maloney
.0354Phil Cosores
.0344Bonnie Stiernberg
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.0335Matt Fiander
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.0193Amy McCarthy
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com