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.
Mike Berick
Overall
Centricity.185#970 of 1313
Breadth.394#593 of 1329
Metalism.000#442 of 1329
2016 original ballot
Centricity.399#233 of 542
Metalism.000#75 of 550
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Lori McKenna · The Bird & the Rifle1510
Drive-By Truckers · American Band1355
Car Seat Headrest · Teens of Denial1176
Paul Simon · Stranger to Stranger1117
Hiss Golden Messenger · Heart Like a Levee1110
David Bowie · Blackstar10208
Robbie Fulks · Upland Stories1018
Sturgill Simpson · A Sailor's Guide to Earth757
Charles Bradley · Changes711
Parquet Courts · Human Performance526

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.2628Michael Deeds · 2016
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.23610L. Kent Wolgamott · 2016
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.1948Michael Gallucci · 2016
.1876Scott Mervis · 2016
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2015 original ballot
Centricity.309#271 of 480
Metalism.000#85 of 483
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Josh Ritter · Sermon on the Rocks164
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats · Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats158
Lucero · All a Man Should Do130
Jason Isbell · Something More Than Free1250
Rhiannon Giddens · Tomorrow Is My Turn1016
Dawes · All Your Favorite Bands95
JD McPherson · Let the Good Times Roll87
Courtney Barnett · Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit7166
Torres · Sprinter526
Mountain Goats · Beat the Champ58

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.3008Charles R. Cross · 2015
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.1286Kyle Petersen · 2015
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.1204Dave Gil de Rubio · 2015
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.1044Brian Orloff · 2015
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2014 original ballot
Centricity.152#450 of 601
Metalism.000#102 of 612
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Lori McKenna · Numbered Doors162
Nikki Lane · All or Nothin'148
Sturgill Simpson · Metamodern Sounds in Country Music1177
Rosanne Cash · The River & the Thread1027
Old 97's · Most Messed Up1014
Rodney Crowell · Tarpaper Sky102
Cory Branan · The No-Hit Wonder101
Dave and Phil Alvin · Common Ground72
St. Paul and the Broken Bones · Half the City64
Ben Miller Band · Any Way Shape or Form60

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.0684J. Anthony Ware · 2014
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2011 original ballot
Centricity.220#452 of 693
Metalism.000#140 of 700
AlbumPointsOther Votes
The Decemberists · The King Is Dead1639
Hayes Carll · KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories)1515
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals · Ashes & Fire1428
Nick Lowe · The Old Magic1114
Noah and the Whale · Last Night on Earth102
Paul Simon · So Beautiful or So What960
JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound · Want More80
Girls · Father, Son, Holy Ghost744
Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble · Mr. Machine50
Ruth Gerson · Deceived50

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.1114Charles Johnson · 2011
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.0794Derek Paiva · 2011
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2010 original ballot
Centricity.058#609 of 699
Metalism.000#121 of 712
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Mynabirds · What We Lose in the Fire We Gain in the Flood168
Dr. Dog · Shame, Shame147
Free Energy · Stuck on Nothing126
Sheepdogs · Learn & Burn120
Mumford & Sons · Sigh No More1122
Roky Erickson & Okkervil River · True Love Cast Out All Evil915
Jesse Malin & the St. Marks Social · Love It to Life84
Freelance Whales · Weathervanes74
Shadow Shadow Shade · Shadow Shadow Shade60
Marching Band · Pop Cycle50

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2009 original ballot
Centricity.066#595 of 683
Metalism.000#161 of 697
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Rosanne Cash · The List1523
Radney Foster and the Confessions · Revival140
Holly Williams · Here With Me130
Lucero · 1372 Overton Park128
Patty Loveless · Mountain Soul II112
Band of Heathens · One Foot in the Ether90
Elvis Costello · Secret, Profane & Sugarcane89
Daddy · For a Second Time72
The Low Anthem · Oh My God, Charlie Darwin610
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears · Tell 'Em What Your Name Is!54

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2008 original ballot
Centricity.090#473 of 568
Metalism.000#123 of 579
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Hayes Carll · Trouble in Mind1516
Band of Heathens · Band of Heathens140
Mark Erelli · Delivered130
Kathleen Edwards · Asking for Flowers1210
Two Cow Garage · Speaking in Cursive110
Becky Schlegel · For All the World to See90
Collin Herring · Past Life Crashing80
Jason Collett · Here's to Being Here70
Lucinda Williams · Little Honey621
Alejandro Escovedo · Real Animal522

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Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com