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.
Joe Heim
Overall
Centricity.233#850 of 1313
Breadth.100#1222 of 1329
Metalism.000#442 of 1329
2009 original ballot
Centricity.233#347 of 683
Metalism.000#161 of 697
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Girls · Album1062
Mos Def · The Ecstatic1058
K'Naan · Troubadour1027
Brad Paisley · American Saturday Night1026
Bob Dylan · Together Through Life1025
Them Crooked Vultures · Them Crooked Vultures1019
Visqueen · Message to Garcia107
Double Dagger · More105
Mika · The Boy Who Knew Too Much102
Darlings · Yeah I Know100

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.1146J. Anthony Ware · 2009
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.1134Max Berry · 2009
.1134Sarah Zupko · 2009
.1124Bill O'Neill · 2009
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.1025Peter S Scholtes · 2009
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.0945Gary Chun · 2009
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.0974Bob Hill
.0622Matthew Schnipper
.0564Samuel Chennault
.0524Evan Serpick
.0484Salvatore Caputo
.0395Bret Gladstone
.0372Gillian G Gaar
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.0275Peter S Scholtes
.0255Christian Hoard
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.0205Andrew Dansby
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Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com