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.
Brice Ezell
Overall
Centricity.224#876 of 1313
Breadth.479#402 of 1329
Metalism.150#74 of 1329
2016 original ballot
Centricity.402#230 of 542
Metalism.100#32 of 550
AlbumPointsOther Votes
David Bowie · Blackstar10208
Beyoncé · Lemonade10179
Radiohead · A Moon Shaped Pool1091
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society · Real Enemies105
Moderat · III104
Opeth · Sorceress103
Panic! at the Disco · Death of a Bachelor102
Katatonia · The Fall of Hearts100
Matt Elliott · The Calm Before100
Scott Walker · The Childhood of a Leader100
SongOther Votes
Radiohead · "Burn the Witch"30
Beyoncé · "Daddy Lessons"10
David Bowie · "Dollar Days"2
Guy Garvey · "Open the Door"1
Red Hot Chili Peppers · "Dark Necessities"1
Avett Brothers · "Satan Pulls the Strings"0
Bo Burnham · "Pandering (the Country Song)"0
Moderat · "Eating Hooks"0
Russian Circles · "Vorel"0
Sara Watkins · "One Last Time"0

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.1026Mac Randall · 2016
.1016Ryan Reed · 2016
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.0967Gary Chun · 2016
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2015 original ballot
Centricity.162#367 of 480
Metalism.100#29 of 483
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Steven Wilson · Hand. Cannot. Erase.154
Chvrches · Every Open Eye1420
Gavin Harrison · Cheating the Polygraph130
Between the Buried and Me · Coma Ecliptic120
Sleater-Kinney · No Cities to Love1091
Liturgy · The Ark Work91
The Weeknd · Beauty Behind the Madness829
Gazpacho · Molok70
Yacht · I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler62
Le Vent Du Nord · Tetu60
SongOther Votes
The Weeknd · "Can't Feel My Face"68
Sleater-Kinney · "A New Wave"16
Chvrches · "Leave a Trace"7
Natalie Prass · "Bird of Prey"1
Skylar Spence · "Can't You See"1
Blur · "Ong Ong"0
Mika · "Talk About You"0
Panic! at the Disco · "Emperor's New Clothes"0
Steven Wilson · "Hand. Cannot. Erase."0
Yacht · "L.A. Plays Itself"0

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.1397Evan Sawdey · 2015
.1316Kyle Ryan · 2015
.1277Shane Harrison · 2015
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.0845Kenneth Partridge · 2015
.0825Carolyn Menyes · 2015
.0815Annie Zaleski · 2015
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.0674Ken Rayes · 2015
2014 original ballot
Centricity.116#477 of 601
Metalism.100#41 of 612
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Swans · To Be Kind1049
Todd Terje · It's Album Time1028
Scott Walker + Sunn O))) · Soused1013
Sondre Lerche · Please105
Opeth · Pale Communion103
Nickel Creek · A Dotted Line102
Battle Trance · Palace of Wind101
Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurrianns · Enemy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)100
Gazpacho · Demon100
Victor Reyes · Grand Piano (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)100
SongOther Votes
Sondre Lerche · "Bad Law"2
Todd Terje · "Svensk Sas"1
Bastille · "Bad News"0
David Gray · "Birds of the High Arctic"0
Jack White · "Three Women"0
Nickel Creek · "21st of May"0
Opeth · "Eternal Rains Will Come"0
The Soft Pink Truth · "Black Metal"0
Swans · "Bring the Sun/Toussaint L'Ouverture"0
Will Stratton · "Gray Lodge Wisdom"0

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.1196Adrien Begrand · 2014
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.0604Danilo Bortoli · 2014
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2013 original ballot
Centricity.097#372 of 453
Metalism.250#23 of 457
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Deafheaven · Sunbather1034
Autre Ne Veut · Anxiety1011
The Haxan Cloak · Excavation107
Russian Circles · Memorial104
Icarus Line · Slave Vows102
Jace Clayton · The Julius Eastman Memory Depot101
Night Beds · Country Sleep101
Shining · One One One101
And So I Watch You From Afar · All Hail Bright Futures100
Bo Burnham · What.100
SongOther Votes
Chvrches · "The Mother We Share"13
Kanye West · "Blood on the Leaves"11
Autre Ne Veut · "Play by Play"10
Deafheaven · "Dream House"10
And So I Watch You From Afar · "Big Thinks Do Remarkable"0
Bo Burnham · "Sad"0
Icarus Line · "Don't Let Me Save Your Soul"0
Justin Timberlake · "True Blood"0
Shining · "I Won't Forget"0
SubRosa · "Cosey Mo"0

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.1418Zachary Smith · 2013
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2012 original ballot
Centricity.345#190 of 485
Metalism.200#25 of 493
AlbumPointsOther Votes
BBU · bell hooks151
Hot Chip · In Our Heads1415
Swans · The Seer1350
Baroness · Yellow & Green1224
Lilacs & Champagne · Lilacs & Champagne100
Pepe Deluxé · Queen of the Wave92
Author & Punisher · Ursus Americanus81
Bastille · Other People's Heartache70
Frank Ocean · Channel Orange6169
Devin Townsend Project · Epicloud60
SongOther Votes
Anathema · "Untouchable"1
Hot Chip · "Night & Day"1
Pepe Deluxé · "Go Supersonic"1
Swans · "Lunacy"1
BBU · "The Hood"0
Frank Ocean · "Super Rich Kids [Feat. Earl Sweatshirt]"0
Jukebox the Ghost · "The Spiritual"0
Light Asylum · "IPC"0
Momus · "Core"0
Philip Glass · "Rubric (Tyondai Braxton Remix)"0

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.07523Adrien Begrand
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