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.
Christopher Barton
Overall
Centricity.626#59 of 1228
Breadth.225#912 of 1244
Metalism.000#401 of 1244
2014 original ballot
Centricity.626#50 of 601
Metalism.000#94 of 612
AlbumPointsOther Votes
D'Angelo · Black Messiah10162
War on Drugs · Lost in the Dream10103
Sturgill Simpson · Metamodern Sounds in Country Music1077
Spoon · They Want My Soul1070
Flying Lotus · You're Dead!1059
Sharon Van Etten · Are We There1052
Aphex Twin · Syro1048
Neneh Cherry · Blank Project1017
Ought · More Than Any Other Day107
Cold Specks · Neuroplasticity102
SongOther Votes
FKA Twigs · "Two Weeks"59
Kendrick Lamar · "I"50
Flying Lotus (ft. Kendrick Lamar) · "Never Catch Me"34
Run the Jewels (ft. Zack de la Rocha) · "Close Your Eyes (and Count to Fuck)"25
tUnE-yArDs · "Water Fountain"25
Benjamin Booker · "Violent Shiver"3
D'Angelo · "1000 Deaths"3
St. Vincent · "Bring Me Your Loves"1
Melanie de Biasio · "I'm Gonna Leave You"0
Spoon · "Outlier"0

Similar Ballots
.32916Aaron Frank · 2014
.31915Jeff Gage · 2014
.30715Kyle Petersen · 2014
.30013Sean Pajot · 2014
.28913Matt Miller · 2014
.26313J. Anthony Ware · 2014
.2609Scott Mervis · 2014
.25913Ken Capobianco · 2014
.2529Jeff Niesel · 2014
.2519Derek Miller · 2014
.25013Ron Hart · 2014
.24112Jonathan Lundeen · 2014
.23812Shannon Carlin · 2014
.23012JD Swerzenski · 2014
.2278Traviss Cassidy · 2014
.22111Erik Thompson · 2014
.22111James Barber · 2014
.2198Michael Gallucci · 2014
.21711Ed Masley · 2014
.21211Corey du Browa · 2014
Similar Voters
.31416Aaron Frank
.29615Kyle Petersen
.29413Sean Pajot
.28013Matt Miller
.2419Jeff Niesel
.22612Shannon Carlin
.22212JD Swerzenski
.19711John Tryneski
.19611Maria Jean Sullivan
.18810Patrick Wall
.1819Stuart Berman
.17810H. Drew Blackburn
.17510E.J. Friedman
.1576Janelle Bitker
.1549Gabriel Rosenberg
.1509Michelle Geslani
.1448Andrea Domanick
.1368Geoffrey Stueven
.1358Sama'an Ashrawi
.13416Jeff Gage
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com