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.
Steve Matteo
Overall
Centricity.406#443 of 1313
Breadth.100#1222 of 1329
Metalism.000#442 of 1329
2011 original ballot
Centricity.406#206 of 693
Metalism.000#140 of 700
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Adele · 211085
Paul Simon · So Beautiful or So What1060
Fleet Foxes · Helplessness Blues1058
Wilco · The Whole Love1053
Gillian Welch · The Harrow and the Harvest1041
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals · Ashes & Fire1028
Feist · Metals1019
Florence & the Machine · Ceremonials1016
Laura Marling · A Creature I Don't Know1012
Coldplay · Mylo Xyloto105

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.2009George Varga · 2011
.1998Derek Paiva · 2011
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.1986Parke Puterbaugh · 2011
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.1517Chris Willman · 2011
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Similar Voters
.1146Lilledeshan Bose
.1126Nicole Frehsee
.1126Parke Puterbaugh
.1049George Varga
.0898Carlo Wolff
.0718Thor Christensen
.0666Jillian Mapes
.0606Jed Gottlieb
.0594Rich Bienstock
.0586Billy Altman
.0586Steve Ciabattoni
.0557Chris Willman
.04810Derek Paiva
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.0485Ted Friedman
.0484Buzz Morison
.0459Steve Baltin
.0455Buzz Poole
.0423Carrie Havranek
.0416Allen St John
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com