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.
John Elsasser
Overall
Centricity.389#487 of 1313
Breadth.170#1101 of 1329
Metalism.000#442 of 1329
2008 original ballot
Centricity.389#167 of 568
Metalism.000#123 of 579
AlbumPointsOther Votes
TV on the Radio · Dear Science10153
Deerhunter · Microcastle/Weird Era Continued1054
No Age · Nouns1044
Los Campesinos! · Hold on Now, Youngster...1031
Vivian Girls · Vivian Girls1020
Times New Viking · Rip It Off1012
Crystal Stilts · Alight of Night109
Last Shadow Puppets · The Age of the Understatement106
Black Kids · Partie Traumatic103
The Muslims · The Muslims101
SongOther Votes
M.I.A. · "Paper Planes"53
MGMT · "Time to Pretend"52
Santogold · "L.E.S. Artistes"48
Fleet Foxes · "White Winter Hymnal"31
Be Your Own Pet · "Becky"10
Vivian Girls · "Where Do You Run To"7
No Age · "Eraser"5
Fuck Buttons · "Sweet Love for Planet Earth"2
Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong · "Lonely Buoy"0
Last Shadow Puppets · "The Age of the Understatement"0

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