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.
M.J. Fine
Overall
Centricity.134#995 of 1228
Breadth.700#160 of 1244
Metalism.000#401 of 1244
2014 original ballot
Centricity.096#499 of 601
Metalism.000#94 of 612
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Lydia Loveless · Somewhere Else2525
Strand of Oaks · Heal238
Rosanne Cash · The River & the Thread1027
Tacocat · Nvm76
Jessica Lea Mayfield · Make My Head Sing72
Orenda Fink · Blue Dream70
Thurston Moore · The Best Day62
Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires · Dereconstructed57
The Both · The Both55
Lera Lynn · The Avenues50
SongOther Votes
tUnE-yArDs · "Water Fountain"25
Sleater-Kinney · "Bury Our Friends"15
Sharon Van Etten · "Your Love Is Killing Me"14
Ex Hex · "Don't Wanna Lose"7
Lykke Li · "No Rest for the Wicked"6
First Aid Kit · "My Silver Lining"2
Tori Amos · "Trouble's Lament"2
Cadbury Sisters · "Milk"0
First Aid Kit · "Walk Unafraid"0
Rosebuds · "In My Teeth"0

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.0764David Goldstein · 2014
.0754Steve Klinge · 2014
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.0614Bill O'Neill · 2014
.0603Nicholas Taylor · 2014
.0594Sarah Ventre · 2014
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2013 original ballot
Centricity.183#316 of 453
Metalism.000#114 of 457
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Basia Bulat · Tall Tall Shadow160
Boy · Mutual Friends151
Lady Lamb the Beekeeper · Ripely Pine144
Sondra Sun-Odeon · Aethera110
Ólöf Arnalds · Sudden Elevation100
Laura Veirs · Warp and Weft92
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds · Push the Sky Away726
Poppy Ackroyd · Escapement70
Savages · Silence Yourself641
Janelle Monáe · The Electric Lady550
SongOther Votes
Arcade Fire · "Reflektor"26
P!nk (ft. Nate Ruess) · "Just Give Me a Reason"2
Thao Nguyen With the Get Down Stay Down · "We the Common (for Valerie Bolden)"1
Basia Bulat · "Tall Tall Shadow"0
Boy · "Little Numbers"0
Ex Hex · "Hot and Cold"0
Laura Stevenson · "Runner"0
Mount Moriah · "Mirach Temple Holiness"0
pacificUV · "Wolves Again"0
Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside · "They Told Me"0

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.1125Matt Sebastian · 2013
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.0904Jill Ettinger · 2013
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.0795Zach Schonfeld · 2013
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.0775Alex Young · 2013
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.0695Ellis Widner · 2013
.0604Geoffrey Himes · 2013
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.0584Jeanne Fury · 2013
.0554Devon Maloney · 2013
.0554Serene Dominic · 2013
.0534Kenneth Partridge · 2013
.0524Brett Koshkin · 2013
.0524Harry Burson · 2013
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2012 original ballot
Centricity.107#378 of 485
Metalism.000#94 of 493
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Anais Mitchell · Young Man in America193
Alex Winston · King Con130
First Aid Kit · The Lion's Roar1212
Hope for Agoldensummer · Life Inside the Body110
Corin Tucker Band · Kill My Blues108
The dB's · Falling Off the Sky98
Amanda Palmer & the Grand Theft Orchestra · Theatre Is Evil84
Spring Standards · Yellow//gold70
Trophy Wife · Sing What Scares You60
Jack White · Blunderbuss540
SongOther Votes
Gotye (ft. Kimbra) · "Somebody That I Used to Know"30
Fun. (ft. Janelle Monae) · "We Are Young"22
Of Monsters and Men · "Little Talks"6
Gossip · "Get a Job"2
Black Prairie · "How Do You Ruin Me"0
Jan · "Work for the City"0
Megan Reilly · "Old Man and the Bird"0
Mindy Smith · "Closer"0
Rhett Miller · "Out of Love"0
Tori Amos · "Flavor"0

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.1608Nick Duerden · 2012
.1357Marianne Meyer · 2012
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.0644Glenn Gamboa · 2012
.0624Lola Emanuelli · 2012
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.0584Phil Gallo · 2012
.0564Gary Graff · 2012
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2011 original ballot
Centricity.136#538 of 693
Metalism.000#140 of 700
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Wild Flag · Wild Flag1790
R.E.M. · Collapse Into Now1512
Le Butcherettes · Sin Sin Sin126
Rosebuds · Loud Planes Fly Low112
Andrew Lipke · The Plague100
Poly Styrene · Generation Indigo93
Lion Versus · Five Hearts80
Jill Scott · The Light of the Sun76
John Wesley Harding · Sound of His Own Voice62
Lia Ices · Grown Unknown50
SongOther Votes
Adele · "Rolling in the Deep"109
Foster the People · "Pumped Up Kicks"38
The Decemberists · "Down by the Water"6
Low · "Especially Me"4
Foo Fighters · "Dear Rosemary"3
Twilight Singers · "On the Corner"1
Baseball Project · "Don't Call Them Twinkies"0
Keren Ann · "101"0
Meshell Ndegeocello · "Oysters"0
Rebecca Pronsky · "Day of the Dead"0

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.1255Kyle Ryan · 2011
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.1076Ken Rayes · 2011
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.0876Jim Sullivan · 2011
.0844Eric T Miller · 2011
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.0725Bob Grossweiner · 2011
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2010 original ballot
Centricity.126#520 of 699
Metalism.000#120 of 712
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Arcade Fire · The Suburbs20144
Tired Pony · The Place We Ran From151
Evelyn Evelyn · Evelyn Evelyn110
Peggy Sue · Fossils and Other Phantoms110
Anais Mitchell · Hadestown93
Samantha Crain · You (Understood)90
Living Sisters · Love to Live73
Chapin Sisters · Two70
David Byrne & Fatboy Slim · Here Lies Love66
Sea of Bees · Songs for the Ravens50

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.0594Emily Tartanella · 2010
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.0222Gary Chun · 2010
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.0202Alan Ranta · 2010
.0202Lola Emanuelli · 2010
.0192Thomas Hauner · 2010
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.0122Ben Schumer · 2010
.0122Jason Gargano · 2010
.0122Jonah Flicker · 2010
.0122Mark J. Lepage · 2010
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2009 original ballot
Centricity.257#315 of 683
Metalism.000#161 of 697
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Ida Maria · Fortress Round My Heart2016
Carsie Blanton · Buoy180
Bat for Lashes · Two Suns1039
Metric · Fantasies1019
Florence & the Machine · Lungs916
Canadian Invasion · Three Cheers for the Invisible Hand80
Drivin N Cryin · The Great American Bubble Factory80
Strand of Oaks · Leave Ruin71
Neko Case · Middle Cyclone5105
St. Vincent · Actor561

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2008 original ballot
Centricity.036#532 of 568
Metalism.000#123 of 579
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Frida Hyvönen · Silence Is Wild155
CSS · Donkey142
Finest Dearest · Finest Dearest130
Tilly and the Wall · O121
Shondes · The Red Sea110
Thao Nguyen With the Get Down Stay Down · We Brave Bee Stings and All94
Rebecca Pronsky · Departures & Arrivals80
Theresa Andersson · Hummingbird, Go!73
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchesta and Tra-la-La Band · 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons61
Amanda Palmer · Who Killed Amanda Palmer56

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.09327Jennifer Vineyard
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.0579Emily Tartanella
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com