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.
Andy Greenwald
Overall
Centricity.446#351 of 1313
Breadth.546#299 of 1329
Metalism.000#442 of 1329
2011 original ballot
Centricity.478#123 of 693
Metalism.000#140 of 700
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Jay-Z and Kanye West · Watch the Throne10104
Drake · Take Care1080
Destroyer · Kaputt1078
Fucked Up · David Comes to Life1065
The Weeknd · House of Balloons1062
Clams Casino · Instrumental Mixtape1018
A$AP Rocky · LiveLoveA$AP1015
R.E.M. · Collapse Into Now1012
Telekinesis · 12 Desperate Straight Lines1010
Blink-182 · Neighborhoods102
SongOther Votes
BeyoncĂ© · "Countdown"96
M83 · "Midnight City"65
Rihanna (ft. Calvin Harris) · "We Found Love"29
DJ Khaled (ft. Drake, Lil Wayne and Rick Ross) · "I'm on One"25
Meek Mill (ft. Rick Ross) · "I'ma Boss"9
College · "A Real Hero"7
Avril Lavigne · "What the Hell"5
Kills · "Future Starts Slow"2
Clams Casino · "I'm God"1
Architecture in Helsinki · "Contact High"0

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.28213Abe Beame · 2011
.26713Chandler Levack · 2011
.23612Corban Goble · 2011
.23011Carl Chery · 2011
.2308Michael Deeds · 2011
.22612Sean Fennessey · 2011
.21811Ryan Dombal · 2011
.21712Zach Baron · 2011
.21411Miles Raymer · 2011
.21312Puja Patel · 2011
.20411Tom Breihan · 2011
.20211Amrit Singh · 2011
.19610Rebecca Raber · 2011
.18810Wesley Case · 2011
.18510Jamieson Cox · 2011
.1809Matthew Perpetua · 2011
.17310Joey Daniewicz · 2011
.17310Larry Fitzmaurice · 2011
.17110Mehan Jayasuriya · 2011
2010 original ballot
Centricity.486#157 of 699
Metalism.000#121 of 712
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Kanye West · My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy10265
Vampire Weekend · Contra10119
The National · High Violet1096
Superchunk · Majesty Shredding1048
Gorillaz · Plastic Beach1032
Rick Ross · Teflon Don1031
New Pornographers · Together1021
Frightened Rabbit · The Winter of Mixed Drinks109
My Chemical Romance · Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys107
Tokyo Police Club · Champ103
SongOther Votes
Katy Perry · "Teenage Dream"35
Crystal Castles (ft. Robert Smith) · "Not in Love"23
Katy Perry · "California Gurls"20
Belle and Sebastian · "I Didn't See It Coming"10
Drake (ft. Lil Wayne) · "Miss Me"5
Japandroids · "Younger Us"4
The-Dream · "F.I.L.A."3
Lloyd Banks (ft. Kanye West, Swizz Beatz, Ryan Leslie & Fabolous) · "Start It Up"2
Waka Flocka Flame (ft. Rick Ross) · "Hard in the Paint (Remix)"0
Young Jeezy (ft. Birdman & Bun B) · "My Tool"0

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.22410Ed Condran · 2010
.21812Zach Baron · 2010
.21512Wesley Case · 2010
.21012Chris Ryan · 2010
.20910Trevor Kelley · 2010
.1858Josh Modell · 2010
.17710Jennifer Vineyard · 2010
.1709Marc Hawthorne · 2010
.1519Mark Richardson · 2010
.1516Matthew Fritch · 2010
.1489Derek Paiva · 2010
.1489Philip Martin · 2010
.1429Chris Burlingame · 2010
.1428Althea Legaspi · 2010
.1416Charles Johnson · 2010
.1408Mordechai Shinefield · 2010
.1359Sean Fennessey · 2010
.1357Ian Hrabe · 2010
.1338Marianne Meyer · 2010
.1328Doree Shafrir · 2010
.1328Eavvon O'Neal · 2010
2009 original ballot
Centricity.435#126 of 683
Metalism.000#161 of 697
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Phoenix · Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix10138
Yeah Yeah Yeahs · It's Blitz!10113
The xx · The xx1092
Camera Obscura · My Maudlin Career1031
Metric · Fantasies1019
The Very Best · Warm Heart of Africa1017
Paramore · Brand New Eyes1015
Tegan and Sara · Sainthood1012
Young Money · We Are Young Money101
Idlewild · Post Electric Blues100
SongOther Votes
Phoenix · "Lisztomania"41
Bat for Lashes · "Daniel"26
Big Boi (ft. Gucci Mane) · "Shine Blockas"20
The Big Pink · "Dominos"19
Keri Hilson (ft. Kanye West & Ne-Yo) · "Knock You Down"12
Gucci Mane (ft. Plies) · "Wasted"6
The-Dream · "Rockin' That Shit"6
Ke$ha · "TiK ToK"5
The National · "So Far Around the Bend"3
Your Twenties · "Billionaires"0

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.27113Ryan Dombal · 2009
.25412Brian Orloff · 2009
.24612Caryn Ganz · 2009
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.1917Laura Barcella · 2009
.1797Althea Legaspi · 2009
.1759Jeanne Fury · 2009
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.1729Jennifer Vineyard · 2009
.1678Adriane Goetz · 2009
.1668Pete Freedman · 2009
.1649Zach Baron · 2009
.1548Shane Harrison · 2009
.1538Annie Zaleski · 2009
.1538Reed Fischer · 2009
.1528Andy Wang · 2009
.1526Rob Trucks · 2009
.1518Lauren Reskin · 2009
.1468Matt Thomas · 2009
.1466Julie Seabaugh · 2009
2008 original ballot
Centricity.386#170 of 568
Metalism.000#123 of 579
AlbumPointsOther Votes
TV on the Radio · Dear Science10153
Bon Iver · For Emma, Forever Ago1072
Los Campesinos! · Hold on Now, Youngster...1031
Gaslight Anthem · The '59 Sound1027
Young Jeezy · The Recession1018
Robert Forster · The Evangelist108
Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit · Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit Are the Very Best106
Fall Out Boy · Folie a Deux105
Los Campesinos! · We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed105
Lindsey Buckingham · Gift of Screws103
SongOther Votes
T.I. (ft. Rihanna) · "Live Your Life"22
Young Jeezy (ft. Kanye West) · "Put On"17
Katy Perry · "Hot 'N' Cold"12
Taylor Swift · "Love Story"10
MGMT · "Kids"9
Vampire Weekend · "M79"5
Jealous Sound · "Got Friends"1
The Academy Is... · "His Girl Friday"0
Frightened Rabbit · "The Twist"0
G-Unit (ft. Mavado) · "Let It Go"0

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.1127Eric Weisbard · 2008
.1117Kenneth Partridge · 2008
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.23541Ryan Dombal
.22441Zach Baron
.22033Chris Ryan
.16336Sean Fennessey
.15823Trevor Kelley
.15229Tom Breihan
.15026Wesley Case
.14519Doree Shafrir
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.13519Amrit Singh
.13421Pete Freedman
.13419Puja Patel
.13237Caryn Ganz
.12725Joe Colly
.12519Ben Detrick
.12312Corban Goble
.12123Ed Condran
.12119Michael Endelman
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.12020Abe Beame
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