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.
Melissa Fossum
Overall
Centricity.547#165 of 1313
Breadth.471#422 of 1329
Metalism.000#442 of 1329
2016 original ballot
Centricity.399#233 of 542
Metalism.000#75 of 550
AlbumPointsOther Votes
A Tribe Called Quest · We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service15184
Frank Ocean · Blonde13101
Radiohead · A Moon Shaped Pool1291
Angel Olsen · My Woman1270
Joyce Manor · Cody113
Kendrick Lamar · Untitled Unmastered1034
Tycho · Epoch82
Against Me! · Shape Shift With Me73
Basement · Promise Everything70
Pity Sex · White Hot Moon50

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.1377Kyle McGovern · 2016
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.1166Michael Dauphin · 2016
2015 original ballot
Centricity.679#42 of 480
Metalism.000#85 of 483
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Kendrick Lamar · To Pimp a Butterfly15209
Sufjan Stevens · Carrie & Lowell1581
Björk · Vulnicura1329
Torres · Sprinter1226
The Weeknd · Beauty Behind the Madness1029
Purity Ring · Another Eternity96
Sleater-Kinney · No Cities to Love891
Health · Death Magic79
Title Fight · Hyperview63
Courtney Barnett · Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit5166
SongOther Votes
Kendrick Lamar · "King Kunta"69
The Weeknd · "Can't Feel My Face"68
Kendrick Lamar · "Alright"65
Courtney Barnett · "Pedestrian at Best"52
Missy Elliott (ft. Pharrell Williams) · "WTF (Where They From)"49
Alabama Shakes · "Gimme All Your Love"4
Torres · "Strange Hellos"4
Disclosure (ft. Lorde) · "Magnets"2
Sufjan Stevens · "Death With Dignity"2
Purity Ring · "Begin Again"0

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.41217Althea Legaspi · 2015
.31814Peter Tabakis · 2015
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.2068Scott Mervis · 2015
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.19510Ed Masley · 2015
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2014 original ballot
Centricity.474#129 of 601
Metalism.000#102 of 612
AlbumPointsOther Votes
St. Vincent · St. Vincent15111
Menzingers · Rented World142
Pup · Pup122
Azealia Banks · Broke With Expensive Taste1152
Against Me! · Transgender Dysphoria Blues1056
Lawrence Arms · Metropole100
Joyce Manor · Never Hungover Again85
Chumped · Teenage Retirement82
D'Angelo · Black Messiah6162
Ex Hex · Rips657
SongOther Votes
Taylor Swift · "Shake It Off"52
Sleater-Kinney · "Bury Our Friends"15
Against Me! · "Transgender Dysphoria Blues"12
St. Vincent · "Birth in Reverse"11
Disclosure (ft. Sam Smith) · "Latch"4
EMA · "Satellites"2
Banks · "Beggin' for Thread"1
Joyce Manor · "Catalina Fight Song"1
Antarctigo Vespucci · "Bang!"0
Menzingers · "Transient Love"0

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2013 original ballot
Centricity.624#54 of 453
Metalism.000#115 of 457
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Vampire Weekend · Modern Vampires of the City15108
Chumped · Chumped150
My Bloody Valentine · m b v1360
Kanye West · Yeezus12159
Neko Case · The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You1045
Arctic Monkeys · AM920
Lorde · Pure Heroine831
Elway · Leavetaking70
Caves · Betterment60
Chvrches · The Bones of What You Believe522
SongOther Votes
Kanye West · "Black Skinhead"36
Janelle Monáe (ft. Erykah Badu) · "Q.U.E.E.N."18
Arctic Monkeys · "Do I Wanna Know?"8
Jay-Z (ft. Justin Timberlake) · "Holy Grail"5
Empire of the Sun · "Alive"1
Phoenix · "Entertainment"1
Caves · "I Don't Care, I Don't Care"0
Chumped · "Dear Emily Dickinson"0
Kate Nash · "Sister"0
Neko Case · "Ragtime"0

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2012 original ballot
Centricity.560#81 of 485
Metalism.000#95 of 493
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Fiona Apple · The Idler Wheel...15100
Japandroids · Celebration Rock1372
Frank Ocean · Channel Orange11169
Titus Andronicus · Local Business1115
Chairlift · Something117
The xx · Coexist916
Lianne La Havas · Is Your Love Big Enough?95
Walkmen · Heaven88
Lotus Plaza · Spooky Action at a Distance78
Father John Misty · Fear Fun632
SongOther Votes
Fun. (ft. Janelle Monae) · "We Are Young"22
Santigold · "Disparate Youth"14
Father John Misty · "Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings"12
Passion Pit · "Take a Walk"11
Kanye West (ft. Jay-Z and Big Sean) · "Clique"9
Gaslight Anthem · "45"3
The Men · "Open Your Heart"3
Fiona Apple · "Hot Knife"1
Twin Shadow · "Golden Light"1
Yeasayer · "Henrietta"1

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.16821Peter Tabakis
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.12726Steven Arroyo
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