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.
Travis Hay
Overall
Centricity.329#627 of 1313
Breadth.660#169 of 1329
Metalism.075#132 of 1329
2016 original ballot
Centricity.294#321 of 542
Metalism.150#27 of 550
AlbumPointsOther Votes
A Tribe Called Quest · We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service15184
Drive-By Truckers · American Band1555
Black Mountain · IV135
Ray LaMontagne · Ouroboros121
Deep Sea Diver · Secrets111
Shovels & Rope · Little Seeds103
Metallica · Hardwired... to Self-Destruct97
Radiohead · A Moon Shaped Pool591
Bob Mould · Patch the Sky59
Posies · Solid States51
SongOther Votes
A Tribe Called Quest · "We the People"55
Radiohead · "Burn the Witch"30
Drive-By Truckers · "What It Means"19
The Weeknd (ft. Daft Punk) · "Starboy"14
Beck · "Wow"3
Justin Timberlake · "Can't Stop the Feeling"3
Metallica · "Atlas, Rise!"2
Phantogram · "You Don't Get Me High Anymore"2
Bishop Briggs · "River"1
Kaytranada (ft. AlunaGeorge & Goldlink) · "Together"0

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2015 original ballot
Centricity.245#313 of 480
Metalism.100#29 of 483
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Sleater-Kinney · No Cities to Love2091
Mad Season & the Seattle Symphony · Sonic Evolution / January 30, 2015 / Benaroya Hall160
Alabama Shakes · Sound & Color1447
My Morning Jacket · The Waterfall1010
Kamasi Washington · The Epic955
Baroness · Purple87
John Grant · Grey Tickles, Black Pressure77
Elle King · Love Stuff61
Ghost · Meliora57
Craig Finn · Faith in the Future52
SongOther Votes
The Weeknd · "Can't Feel My Face"68
Missy Elliott (ft. Pharrell Williams) · "WTF (Where They From)"49
Tame Impala · "Let It Happen"31
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats · "S.O.B."14
Beck · "Dreams"12
Elle King · "Ex's and Oh's"11
Kacey Musgraves · "Biscuits"10
Hop Along · "Waitress"5
Muse · "Dead Inside"0
Of Monsters and Men · "Crystals"0

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2014 original ballot
Centricity.344#247 of 601
Metalism.050#66 of 612
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Hold Steady · Teeth Dreams306
Run the Jewels · Run the Jewels 220162
Kiasmos · Kiasmos90
Afghan Whigs · Do to the Beast812
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks · Wig Out at Jagbags711
Cloud Nothings · Here and Nowhere Else627
Against Me! · Transgender Dysphoria Blues556
Jack White · Lazaretto525
Shabazz Palaces · Lese Majesty521
Broken Bells · After the Disco54
SongOther Votes
Taylor Swift · "Shake It Off"52
Flying Lotus (ft. Kendrick Lamar) · "Never Catch Me"34
St. Vincent · "Digital Witness"30
Ariana Grande (ft. Iggy Azalea) · "Problem"20
Iggy Azalea (ft. Charli XCX) · "Fancy"20
Spoon · "Inside Out"14
Paramore · "Ain't It Fun"12
Mastodon · "The Motherload"4
Big Data (ft. Joywave) · "Dangerous"2
"Weird Al" Yankovic · "Handy"2

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2013 original ballot
Centricity.423#158 of 453
Metalism.000#115 of 457
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Daft Punk · Random Access Memories1575
Chelsea Light Moving · Chelsea Light Moving141
Franz Ferdinand · Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action134
Savages · Silence Yourself1241
Arctic Monkeys · AM1120
Lorde · Pure Heroine931
Vampire Weekend · Modern Vampires of the City8108
John Grant · Pale Green Ghosts711
Ghost B.C. · Infestissumam64
Pearl Jam · Lightning Bolt53
SongOther Votes
Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams) · "Get Lucky"116
Lorde · "Royals"75
Haim · "The Wire"58
Robin Thicke (ft. T.I. and Pharrell) · "Blurred Lines"39
Vampire Weekend · "Diane Young"19
Janelle MonĂ¡e (ft. Erykah Badu) · "Q.U.E.E.N."18
Pearl Jam · "Sirens"3
Nine Inch Nails · "Came Back Haunted"2
AlunaGeorge · "You Know You Like It"0
Fitz & the Tantrums · "The Walker"0

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2012 original ballot
Centricity.294#224 of 485
Metalism.050#70 of 493
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Japandroids · Celebration Rock2072
THEESatisfaction · awE naturalE158
Jack White · Blunderbuss1040
Bruce Springsteen · Wrecking Ball835
Alabama Shakes · Boys & Girls832
El-P · Cancer 4 Cure828
Brandi Carlile · Bear Creek84
Deftones · Koi No Yokan83
Grace Potter & the Nocturnals · The Lion, the Beast, the Beat81
Soundgarden · Boys & Girls70
SongOther Votes
Carly Rae Jepsen · "Call Me Maybe"93
Gotye (ft. Kimbra) · "Somebody That I Used to Know"30
Fun. · "Some Nights"20
Bruce Springsteen · "We Take Care of Our Own"18
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis · "Thrift Shop"10
Muse · "Madness"3
Neon Trees · "Everybody Talks"3
Black Keys · "Lonely Boy"2
Alex Clare · "Too Close"1
Imagine Dragons · "Radioactive"0

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2011 original ballot
Centricity.371#244 of 693
Metalism.100#50 of 700
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Shabazz Palaces · Black Up2071
Wild Flag · Wild Flag1390
Fleet Foxes · Helplessness Blues1258
Mastodon · The Hunter1121
Kasabian · Velociraptor102
Radiohead · The King of Limbs938
TV on the Radio · Nine Types of Light827
Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi · Rome78
White Denim · D515
Eleanor Friedberger · Last Summer514
SongOther Votes
Jay-Z and Kanye West · "Niggas in Paris"63
Foster the People · "Pumped Up Kicks"38
Black Keys · "Lonely Boy"29
Das Racist · "Michael Jackson"19
Joy Formidable · "Whirring"16
Battles · "Ice Cream"14
My Morning Jacket · "Holdin' On to Black Metal"7
Mastodon · "Curl of the Burl"6
Fleet Foxes · "The Shrine/An Argument"0
Shim · "Rock and Roll"0

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