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.
Peter Blackstock
Overall
Centricity.245#825 of 1313
Breadth.392#598 of 1329
Metalism.000#442 of 1329
2016 original ballot
Centricity.329#298 of 542
Metalism.000#75 of 550
AlbumPointsOther Votes
David Bowie · Blackstar30208
Leonard Cohen · You Want It Darker2580
Margo Price · Midwest Farmer's Daughter1029
Drive-By Truckers · American Band555
Lydia Loveless · Real59
case/lang/veirs · case/lang/veirs58
Alejandro Escovedo · Burn Something Beautiful55
Shearwater · Jet Plane and Oxbow55
Sarah Jarosz · Undercurrent52
Basia Bulat · Good Advice50
SongOther Votes
Leonard Cohen · "You Want It Darker"41
David Bowie · "I Can't Give Everything Away"13
Margo Price · "Hands of Time"8
Lydia Loveless · "Real"1
Alejandro Escovedo · "Beauty and the Buzz"0
David Halley · "Speed"0
Jon Dee Graham · "Dan Stuart's Blues"0
Michael Fracasso · "Here Come the Savages"0
Parker Millsap · "The Very Last Day"0
Sarah Jarosz · "Early Morning Light"0

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.1919Ellis Widner · 2016
.1756Mark Deming · 2016
.1488Roy Kasten · 2016
.1466Mark J. Lepage · 2016
.1436Adam Gold · 2016
.1428Robert Loerzel · 2016
.1408Dorian Lynskey · 2016
.1396Charles R. Cross · 2016
.1396Tim Riley · 2016
.1386Larry King · 2016
.1277Bob Townsend · 2016
.1277Jon Bream · 2016
.1257Jon Solomon · 2016
.1237Chris Willman · 2016
.1216J. Anthony Ware · 2016
.1146Amy McCarthy · 2016
.1127Holly Gleason · 2016
.1076David Goldstein · 2016
2015 original ballot
Centricity.300#275 of 480
Metalism.000#85 of 483
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Jason Isbell · Something More Than Free3050
Dave Rawlings Machine · Nashville Obsolete107
Jeff Lynne's ELO · Alone in the Universe101
Waterboys · Modern Blues101
Joe Pug · Windfall100
Mike Flanigin · The Drifter100
Courtney Barnett · Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit5166
Alabama Shakes · Sound & Color547
The Decemberists · What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World57
Joe Jackson · Fast Forward52
SongOther Votes
Courtney Barnett · "Pedestrian at Best"52
Jason Isbell · "24 Frames"14
Gary Clark Jr. · "The Healing"0
The Ghost of Richard Manuel · "Mike + Ruthy"0
James McMurtry · "Carlisle's Haul"0
Joe Ely · "Magdalene"0
Joe Pug · "If Still It Can't Be Found"0
Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson · "Unfair Weather Friend"0
Patty Griffin · "Rider of Days"0
Uncle Lucius · "Age of Reason"0

Similar Ballots
.1578Jon Bream · 2015
.1486Andrew Bartlett · 2015
.1357Bill Holdship · 2015
.1357Richard Skanse · 2015
.1297Carolyn Menyes · 2015
.1297Dan DeLuca · 2015
.1277Sachyn Mital · 2015
.1245Larry King · 2015
.1146Ray Padgett · 2015
.1135Roy Kasten · 2015
.1116Roy Trakin · 2015
.1056Kyle Petersen · 2015
.1054Janelle Bitker · 2015
.1036Stephen M. Deusner · 2015
.1026Chris Herrington · 2015
.1026Christopher Barton · 2015
.1006Anders Smith Lindall · 2015
.0954J. R. Taylor · 2015
.0954Tom Finkel · 2015
.0954Zeth Lundy · 2015
2014 original ballot
Centricity.106#488 of 601
Metalism.000#102 of 612
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Luluc · Passerby305
The Delines · Colfax203
Sturgill Simpson · Metamodern Sounds in Country Music1077
Easton Stagger Phillips · Resolution Road100
The Both · The Both55
Laura Cantrell · No Way There From Here51
The Mastersons · Good Luck Charm51
Spanish Gold · South of Nowhere50
Stephen Doster · Arizona50
Willie Nelson (ft. Sister Bobbie) · December Day50
SongOther Votes
Sturgill Simpson · "Turtles All the Way Down"20
Old 97's · "Longer Than You've Been Alive"6
Head and the Heart · "Shake"0
Ian McLagan & Alejandro Escovedo · "I'm Not Like Everybody Else"0
Laura Cantrell · "Starry Skies"0
Lucillia · "Easton Stagger Phillips"0
Luluc · "Tangled Heart"0
Noah Gundersen · "Cigarettes"0
Robert Ellis · "Only Lies"0
Spanish Gold · "Out on the Street"0

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.0594Jim Fouratt · 2014
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Similar Voters
.11915Amy McCarthy
.11814Anders Smith Lindall
.10118Roy Kasten
.08012Patrick Rogers
.07811Ray Padgett
.07712Sachyn Mital
.07512Christopher Barton
.0737Brian Ives
.0718Kevin Rutherford
.06910Seth Mnookin
.06713Mike Berick
.0676Tom Finkel
.06519Jon Bream
.0648Carolyn Menyes
.0625Deb Sprague
.05916Bill Holdship
.05913Dan Ferguson
.0579Chris Willman
.05617J. Anthony Ware
.05614Dan DeLuca
.05614Larry King
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com