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.
Leslie Berman
Overall
Centricity.202#925 of 1313
Breadth.423#534 of 1329
Metalism.000#442 of 1329
2014 original ballot
Centricity.439#161 of 601
Metalism.000#102 of 612
AlbumPointsOther Votes
St. Vincent · St. Vincent10111
Sturgill Simpson · Metamodern Sounds in Country Music1077
Angel Olsen · Burn Your Fire for No Witness1064
Sharon Van Etten · Are We There1052
Leonard Cohen · Popular Problems1028
Rosanne Cash · The River & the Thread1027
Jack White · Lazaretto1025
Mary J. Blige · The London Sessions1015
Sam Smith · In the Lonely Hour1012
Marianne Faithfull · Give My Love to London104
SongOther Votes
Sam Smith · "Stay With Me"27
Meghan Trainor · "All About That Bass"23
Against Me! · "Transgender Dysphoria Blues"12
Mariah Carey · "All I Want for Christmas"0
Pentatonix · "Mary Did You Know"0

Similar Ballots
.36215Jon Bream · 2014
.28310Carlo Wolff · 2014
.2618Salvatore Caputo · 2014
.2418Jill Ettinger · 2014
.24011Sarah Ventre · 2014
.22211Jon Pareles · 2014
.1929Alan Light · 2014
.1869Joey Hood · 2014
.1848Hilary Hughes · 2014
.1726Larry King · 2014
.1678Holly Gleason · 2014
.1676Charles R. Cross · 2014
.1676Scott Mervis · 2014
.1656Allen St John · 2014
.1638Ellis Widner · 2014
.1598Shane Harrison · 2014
.1576Bob Townsend · 2014
.1538Jere Pilapil · 2014
.1397L. Kent Wolgamott · 2014
.1357Katie Moulton · 2014
2012 original ballot
Centricity.044#451 of 485
Metalism.000#95 of 493
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Bonnie Raitt · Slipstream107
Carolina Chocolate Drops · Leaving Eden106
The Lumineers · The Lumineers105
Mumford & Sons · Babel105
Ruthie Foster · Let It Burn101
Ry Cooder · Election Special101
Arturo Sandoval · Dear Diz (Every Day I Think of You)100
Steep Canyon Rangers · Nobody Knows You100
Woody Guthrie · Woody at 100: the Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection100
(various artists) · This One's for Him: a Tribute to Guy Clark100
SongOther Votes
Frank Ocean · "Thinkin' 'Bout You"46
Gotye (ft. Kimbra) · "Somebody That I Used to Know"30
Alan Jackson · "So You Don't Have to Love Me Anymore"3
Black Keys · "Lonely Boy"2
Ed Sheeran · "The A-Team"2

Similar Ballots
.1608James Rodgers · 2012
.1579Holly Gleason · 2012
.1477Derek Paiva · 2012
.1146Bob Grossweiner · 2012
.0834Nana Brew-Hammond · 2012
.0825David Cantwell · 2012
.0825Roy Trakin · 2012
.0805Nick Duerden · 2012
.0784Larry King · 2012
.0574Travis Hay · 2012
.0544Glenn Gamboa · 2012
.0544Ken Rayes · 2012
.0535Ellis Widner · 2012
.0514Gary Graff · 2012
.0494Steve Horowitz · 2012
.0483Jeff Tamarkin · 2012
.0404Dave Gil de Rubio · 2012
.0394Bill Holdship · 2011
.0364Chris M. Junior · 2012
.0353Bob Grossweiner · 2011
.0353Dan DeLuca · 2011
2011 original ballot
Centricity.226#443 of 693
Metalism.000#140 of 700
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Adele · 211585
Mumford & Sons · The Cave140
Alison Krauss & Union Station · Paper Airplane133
The Decemberists · The King Is Dead1239
Ralph Stanley · A Mother's Prayer112
Marcia Ball · Roadside Attractions90
Steve Earle · I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive83
Roseanna Vitro · The Music of Randy Newman71
Fleet Foxes · Helplessness Blues658
SongOther Votes
Adele · "Rolling in the Deep"109
The Decemberists · "Down by the Water"6
Cee Lo Green · "Fuck You!"4
Katy Perry · "Firework"4
Jennifer Lopez (ft. Pitbull) · "On the Floor"1
Alison Krauss & Union Station · "Dimming of the Day"0
Betty Wright & the Roots · "Surrender"0
Lady Gaga · "Bad Romance"0
Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse · "Body and Soul"0
Vance Gilbert (Bee Lo Blue) · "Kiss My Ass"0

Similar Ballots
.1716Kevin Moreau · 2011
.1548Nicole Frehsee · 2011
.1378Buzz Morison · 2011
.1207Bob Grossweiner · 2011
.1137L. Kent Wolgamott · 2011
.0976Holly George-Warren · 2011
.0966Charles R. Cross · 2011
.0936Holly Gleason · 2011
.0926Clover Hope · 2011
.0926Jon Bream · 2011
.0924Shawn Macomber · 2011
.0906Steve Leftridge · 2011
.0896Ross Raihala · 2011
.0894Parke Puterbaugh · 2011
.0875Salvatore Caputo · 2011
.0805Chris Conaton · 2011
.0804Preston Jones · 2011
.0795Geoffrey Himes · 2011
.0795Scott Mervis · 2011
.0794Anthony DeCurtis · 2011
2009 original ballot
Centricity.098#552 of 683
Metalism.000#161 of 697
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Dead Weather · Horehound1028
Leonard Cohen · Live in London1019
Amadou & Mariam · Welcome to Mali1018
Loudon Wainwright III · High Wide and Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project1013
Eminem · Relapse106
Béla Fleck · Throw Down Your Heart105
Beausoleil Avec Michael Doucet · Alligator Purse101
Magnolia Sisters · Stripped Down100
Quartet San Francisco · QSF Plays Brubeck100
Willie Nelson · American Classic100
SongOther Votes
Beyoncé · "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"13
Willie Nelson (ft. Norah Jones) · "Baby, It's Cold Outside"1

Similar Ballots
.1326Robert Christgau · 2009
.1034Derk Richardson · 2009
.1024Tom Hull · 2009
.1004Phillip Overeem · 2009
.0654Milo Miles · 2009
.0614Ellis Widner · 2009
.0582Ryan Ritchie · 2009
.0514Jim Farber · 2009
.0504Roy Trakin · 2009
.0484Jon Bream · 2009
.0464Jim Macnie · 2009
.0422Larry Birnbaum · 2009
.0413Andrew Bartlett · 2009
.0393Anthony Bozza · 2009
.0332Derek Beres · 2009
.0332Sarah Zupko · 2009
.0322Allen St John · 2009
.0322Banning Eyre · 2009
.0322Banning Eyre · 2010
.0322Rick Mitchell · 2009
.0322Tad Hendrickson · 2009
Similar Voters
.15217Carlo Wolff
.13411Jon Pareles
.12411Nicole Frehsee
.12313Salvatore Caputo
.11532Jon Bream
.09730Holly Gleason
.09729Bob Grossweiner
.09315Allen St John
.0919Buzz Morison
.08928Roy Trakin
.08724Alan Light
.08520Charles R. Cross
.07819Jim Farber
.07615Steve Horowitz
.07421Scott Mervis
.07327Gary Graff
.07325Ellis Widner
.07319Bob Townsend
.07313Devon Maloney
.07118Derek Paiva
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