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.
Will York
Overall
Centricity.053#1230 of 1313
Breadth.314#767 of 1329
Metalism.480#25 of 1329
2015 original ballot
Centricity.022#462 of 480
Metalism.500#5 of 483
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Dodheimsgard · A Umbra Omega251
Blind Idiot God · Before Ever After152
Tim Berne's Snakeoil · You've Been Watching Me140
Matt Mitchell · Vista Accumulation130
Killing Joke · Pylon85
Horrendous · Anareta53
My Dying Bride · Feel the Misery51
Deathtrip · Deep Drone Master50
Eugene the Oceanographer · The Tigers of Mount Paektu50
(various artists) · Entertainment: Original Soundtrack50

Similar Ballots
.1214Kurt Orzeck · 2015
.0362Oliver Hall · 2015
.0353Will York · 2013
.0342Daniel Chamberlin · 2015
.0342Jordan Mamone · 2015
.0342Mark Lore · 2015
.0332Adam Bregman · 2015
.0242John Walker · 2015
.0212Hank Shteamer · 2015
.0212Jeanne Fury · 2015
.0202Dominique Leone · 2015
.0202Michael Robbins · 2015
2014 original ballot
Centricity.025#578 of 601
Metalism.900#4 of 612
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Eyehategod · Eyehategod125
Secret Chiefs 3 · Ishraqiyun: Perichoresis120
Morbus Chron · Sweven115
Horrendous · Ecdysis111
At the Gates · At War With Reality101
Darkspace · Dark Space III I101
Aevangelist · Writhes in the Murk100
Blut Aus Nord/P.H.O.B.O.S. · Triunity90
Emptiness · Nothing but the Whole80
Invisible Hands · Teslam71

Similar Ballots
.1254Matt Sullivan · 2014
.1204Kurt Orzeck · 2014
.0332Etan Rosenbloom · 2014
.0332John Mincemoyer · 2014
.0332Laina Dawes · 2014
.0282Mike Rowell · 2014
.0222Mike R. Meyer · 2014
.0222Zena Tsarfin · 2014
.0212Dominique Leone · 2014
.0202Andrew Miller · 2014
.0192Brad Nelson · 2014
.0192Daniel Chamberlin · 2014
2013 original ballot
Centricity.058#405 of 453
Metalism.500#9 of 457
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Carcass · Surgical Steel1616
Tim Berne's Snakeoil · Shadow Man152
Gorguts · Colored Sands149
Virus · Oblivion Clock120
Oranssi Pazuzu · Valonielu112
(various artists) · Feral Grind80
Craig Taborn Trio · Chants72
Matt Mitchell · Fiction70
Ches Smith and These Arches · Hammered51
Wormed · Exodromos50

Similar Ballots
.2146Brent Burton · 2013
.1194Albert Mudrian · 2013
.0784Hank Shteamer · 2013
.0774Jonathan Lundeen · 2013
.0774Laina Dawes · 2013
.0744Matt Sullivan · 2013
.0714Michael Robbins · 2013
.0353Steve Holtje · 2013
.0353Will York · 2015
.0352Justin Cober-Lake · 2013
.0342David Adler · 2013
.0342Nick Green · 2013
.0332Catherine Lewis · 2016
.0332Etan Rosenbloom · 2013
.0322Kevin Stewart-Panko · 2013
.0322Kurt Orzeck · 2013
.0232Jeanne Fury · 2013
.0232Zena Tsarfin · 2013
.0222Mike R. Meyer · 2013
.0212Adrien Begrand · 2013
.0212Jamie Ludwig · 2016
.0212Kory Grow · 2013
2012 original ballot
Centricity.145#337 of 485
Metalism.100#38 of 493
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Frogs · Squirrel Bunny Jupiter Deluxe150
Alvarius B · Alvarius B140
Tim Berne · Snakeoil132
Oren Ambarchi · Audience of One123
Bob Lind · Finding You Again110
Michael Formanek · Small Places90
Cecil Taylor · Almeda (to Matie)80
Fiona Apple · The Idler Wheel...7100
Frogs · Count Yer Blessingsz60
Sleep · Dopesmoker50

Similar Ballots
.0704Jim Macnie · 2012
.0532Adam Strohm · 2012
.0342John Payne · 2012
.0332Brent Burton · 2012
.0262Anthony Miccio · 2012
.0262Jason Gargano · 2012
.0262Mark J. Lepage · 2012
.0262Michael Ayers · 2012
.0252Deborah Sprague · 2012
.0252Michael Daddino · 2012
.0252Scott Mervis · 2012
.0252Thor Christensen · 2012
.0242David Adler · 2012
.0242David Greenwald · 2012
.0242Jill Ettinger · 2012
.0242Jose Davila · 2012
.0242Laura Leebove · 2012
.0242Quentin Huff · 2012
.0232Bobby Reed · 2012
.0232James Hannaham · 2012
.0232Linda Leseman · 2012
2008 original ballot
Centricity.016#561 of 568
Metalism.400#16 of 579
AlbumPointsOther Votes
(various artists) · Always Something There: A Burt Bacharach Collectors' Anthology 1952-1969150
Joe E. · Love Got in My Way140
Outlaw Order · Dragging Down the Enforcer130
American Music Club · The Golden Age112
Bohren & Der Club of Gore · Dolores111
Esoteric · The Maniacal Vale100
Nadja · Desire in Uneasiness70
Singer · Unhistories70
Soilent Green · Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction70
Gridlink · Amber Grey50

Similar Ballots
.0342Eryc Eyl · 2008
.0222Jack Rabid · 2008
.0213Chris Toenes · 2009
.0212Rob Brunner · 2008
Similar Voters
.05911Kurt Orzeck
.0499Brent Burton
.0275Etan Rosenbloom
.0268Matt Sullivan
.0258Michael Robbins
.0254Albert Mudrian
.0233Mark Lore
.0216Hank Shteamer
.0206Jonathan Lundeen
.0206Laina Dawes
.0175Daniel Chamberlin
.0172Eryc Eyl
.0165Zena Tsarfin
.0155David Adler
.0155Dominique Leone
.0154Mike R. Meyer
.0143Shawn Macomber
.0142Adam Strohm
.0133John Payne
.0132Jamie Ludwig
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com