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.
Michael Goldberg
Overall
Centricity.302#684 of 1313
Breadth.331#727 of 1329
Metalism.000#442 of 1329
2011 original ballot
Centricity.226#443 of 693
Metalism.000#140 of 700
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Tom Waits · Bad As Me1095
Fleet Foxes · Helplessness Blues1058
The Beach Boys · The Smile Sessions1022
Feist · Metals1019
Head and the Heart · Head and the Heart106
Death Cab for Cutie · Codes and Keys103
Miles Davis Quintet · Live in Europe 1967103
Alina Simone · Make Your Own Danger100
Emmy the Great · Virtue100
Jolie Holland · Pint of Blood100

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.1346Chris Willman · 2011
.1134Andrew Dansby · 2011
.1134Barney Hoskyns · 2011
.1134Steve Matteo · 2011
.1124Eric T Miller · 2011
.1094Curtis Schieber · 2011
.1084Preston Jones · 2011
.1074Steve Simels · 2011
.1025Lilledeshan Bose · 2011
.1014Laurence Station · 2011
.1014Parke Puterbaugh · 2011
.0994Kevin Moreau · 2011
.0974Jeff Tamarkin · 2011
.0974Sean Murphy · 2011
.0964Shawn Macomber · 2011
.0955Jon Bream · 2011
.0954Buzz Poole · 2011
.0794Steve Baltin · 2011
.0764Nicole Frehsee · 2011
2010 original ballot
Centricity.194#453 of 699
Metalism.000#121 of 712
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Deerhunter · Halcyon Digest1076
Joanna Newsom · Have One on Me1064
No Age · Everything in Between1026
Gil Scott-Heron · I'm New Here1022
New Pornographers · Together1021
Broken Social Scene · Forgiveness Rock Record1014
Laura Marling · I Speak Because I Can1014
Bob Dylan · The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964 (The Bootleg Series Vol. 9)107
Corin Tucker Band · 1000 Years103
Mountain Goats · The Life of the World to Come100

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.2016Eric Broome · 2010
.1324Craig Thompson · 2010
.1184David Adler · 2010
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.1176Jason Cherkis · 2010
.1164Buzz Poole · 2010
.1094Curtis Schieber · 2010
.1055Jeremiah McNeil · 2010
.1054Larry King · 2010
.0995Omar Kholeif · 2010
.0974Kiersten Tarr · 2010
.0925Andy Gensler · 2010
.0855Martin Douglas · 2010
.0824Anna Deem · 2010
.0784Joey Daniewicz · 2010
.0744Bret Gladstone · 2010
.0744Jer Fairall · 2010
.0734Mark Richardson · 2010
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.0694Amanda Petrusich · 2010
2009 original ballot
Centricity.416#144 of 683
Metalism.000#161 of 697
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Dirty Projectors · Bitte Orca10107
Grizzly Bear · Veckatimest10105
The xx · The xx1092
Sonic Youth · The Eternal1041
Rosanne Cash · The List1023
Allen Toussaint · The Bright Mississippi1021
Mountain Goats · The Life of the World to Come1016
Fiery Furnaces · I'm Going Away1012
Rickie Lee Jones · Balm in Gilead103
Emmy the Great · First Love100
SongOther Votes
Girls · "Lust for Life"41

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.1357Zach Kelly · 2009
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2008 original ballot
Centricity.370#186 of 568
Metalism.000#123 of 579
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Jolie Holland · The Living and the Dead223
Laura Marling · Alas I Cannot Swim149
Portishead · Third8101
Bon Iver · For Emma, Forever Ago872
Deerhunter · Microcastle/Weird Era Continued854
Hold Steady · Stay Positive853
Ponytail · Ice Cream Spiritual!810
Neil Young · Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 196888
Felice Brothers · The Felice Brothers83
Gossip · Live in Liverpool80
SongOther Votes
Death Cab for Cutie · "I Will Possess Your Heart"20
Beck · "Gamma Ray"8
TV on the Radio · "Dancing Choose"5
Jenny Lewis · "Acid Tongue"4
Jolie Holland · "Mexico City"4
White Denim · "Shake Shake Shake"1
Deerhoof · "Offend Maggie"0
Laura Marling · "Your Only Doll (Dora)"0
She & Him · "You Really Got a Hold on Me"0
Thea Gilmore · "Roll On"0

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.13314Luke Hackney
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.11914Justin Gage
.1199Jed Lipinski
.11516Julia Simon
.11312Steve Ciabattoni
.10811Eric Elbogen
.10711George Varga
.10410Barney Hoskyns
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.09916Andy Dubbin
.0999Scott Holter
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Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com