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.
Ernest Hardy
Overall
Centricity.493#269 of 1313
Breadth.170#1101 of 1329
Metalism.000#442 of 1329
2008 original ballot
Centricity.493#84 of 568
Metalism.000#123 of 579
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Erykah Badu · New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War1979
TV on the Radio · Dear Science9153
Santogold · Santogold978
Raphael Saadiq · The Way I See It944
Q-Tip · The Renaissance931
Al Green · Lay It Down921
Estelle · Shine917
Brandy · Human91
Amos Lee · Last Days at the Lodge90
Grace Jones · Hurricane90
SongOther Votes
Ne-Yo · "Closer"15
Jazmine Sullivan (ft. Missy Elliott) · "Need U Bad"9
Q-Tip · "Gettin' Up"9
Erykah Badu · "Soldier"1
Estelle · "Pretty Please (Love Me)"1
Gnarls Barkley · "I'm Going On"1
Janet Jackson · "Rock With U"0
Jay Brannan · "Housewife"0
Sam Sparro · "American Boy"0
T-Baby · "It's So Cold in the D"0

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Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com