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.
Chris Willman
Overall
Centricity.419#395 of 1281
Breadth.310#790 of 1297
Metalism.000#425 of 1297
2014 original ballot
Centricity.342#250 of 601
Metalism.000#97 of 612
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Taylor Swift · 19891570
New Pornographers · Brill Bruisers1542
Bob Dylan · The Basement Tapes Complete: the Bootleg Series Vol. 111518
The Both · The Both155
Lone Justice · This Is Lone Justice: the Vaught Tapes 1983150
D'Angelo · Black Messiah5162
Angaleena Presley · American Middle Class516
Prince · Art Official Age58
Jim Lauderdale · I'm a Song50
Living Sisters · Harmony Is Real: Songs for a Happy Holiday50
SongOther Votes
Taylor Swift · "Shake It Off"52
Jenny Lewis · "Just One of the Guys"17
Maddie & Tae · "Girl in a Country Song"14
New Pornographers · "Brill Bruisers"12
Taylor Swift · "Out of the Woods"8
New Pornographers · "Dancehall Domine"3
Prince · "Breakdown"2
Dierks Bentley · "I Hold On"1
U2 · "The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)"1
Lee Ann Womack · "Chances Are"0

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.1398Shannon Carlin · 2014
.1366Amy McCarthy · 2014
.1167L. Kent Wolgamott · 2014
.1087Michael Robbins · 2014
.1026Patrick Rogers · 2014
.0976Jennifer Vineyard · 2014
.0966Andy Gensler · 2014
.0904Tom Finkel · 2014
.0886Chris Herrington · 2014
.0884Tim Riley · 2014
.0876Brian McManus · 2014
.0876Thierry Cote · 2014
.0874Jeremiah McNeil · 2014
.0856Holly Gleason · 2014
2011 original ballot
Centricity.496#101 of 693
Metalism.000#140 of 700
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Tom Waits · Bad As Me1595
Pistol Annies · Hell on Heels1542
The Beach Boys · The Smile Sessions1522
Feist · Metals1519
Miranda Lambert · Four the Record1012
Kelly Clarkson · Stronger102
Adele · 21585
Drake · Take Care580
Black Keys · El Camino553
Wilco · The Whole Love553
SongOther Votes
BeyoncĂ© · "Countdown"96
Pistol Annies · "Hell on Heels"17
Adele · "Rumour Has It"11
Taylor Swift · "Mean"9
Gillian Welch · "The Way It Will Be"2
Jay-Z and Kanye West · "Murder to Excellence"2
Kelly Clarkson · "I Forgive You"1
Demi Lovato · "Unbroken"0
New York Dolls · "I'm So Fabulous"0
Trace Adkins · "Just Fishin'"0

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.1789Eric Snider
.15111Nicole Frehsee
.1397Steve Matteo
.12111Salvatore Caputo
.1189Joey Guerra
.09510Jonah LaFollette
.08711Thor Christensen
.0835Tim Riley
.08210Rob Tannenbaum
.0829Jed Gottlieb
.08018Al Choman
.08010Carlo Wolff
.0807Amy McCarthy
.0789George Varga
.0769Jillian Mapes
.0759Michael Goldberg
.0759Shannon Carlin
.07016Geoffrey Himes
.06818Alan Light
.06721Steve Knopper
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com