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.
Joe Tangari
Overall
Centricity.306#673 of 1313
Breadth.438#497 of 1329
Metalism.000#442 of 1329
2011 original ballot
Centricity.280#371 of 693
Metalism.000#140 of 700
AlbumPointsOther Votes
tUnE-yArDs · w h o k i l l10134
Fleet Foxes · Helplessness Blues1058
Tim Hecker · Ravedeath, 19721036
Psychic Paramount · II109
Sloan · The Double Cross108
Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal · Chamber Music105
Ex · Catch My Shoe104
Rudresh Mahanthappa · Samdhi103
Kieran Hebden, Steve Reid & Mats Gustafsson · Live at the South Bank100
Snowman · Absence100
SongOther Votes
Paul Simon · "Getting Ready for Christmas Day"6
Jens Lekman · "An Argument With Myself"4
Low · "Especially Me"4
Fever Ray · "The Wolf"1
Thomas Fehlmann · "DFM"1
Fleet Foxes · "Battery Kinzie"0
Kieran Hebden, Steve Reid & Mats Gustafsson · "The Sun Never Sets"0
Psychic Paramount · "Rw"0
Sloan · "The Answer Was You"0
Snowman · "Hyena"0

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.0755Marc Hogan · 2011
.0744Nate Seltenrich · 2011
.0724Audra Schroeder · 2011
.0705Charles R. Cross · 2011
.0705Greg Kot · 2011
.0674Marianne Meyer · 2011
.0654Nick Neyland · 2011
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.0604Greg Franklin · 2011
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.0574Douglas Wolk · 2011
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2010 original ballot
Centricity.469#176 of 699
Metalism.000#121 of 712
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabaté · Ali & Toumani165
Vampire Weekend · Contra15119
Laura Veirs · July Flame137
Surfer Blood · Astro Coast1123
Janelle Monáe · The ArchAndroid10133
Kanye West · My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy9265
Max Richter · Infra80
Charlotte Gainsbourg · IRM716
Hot Chip · One Life Stand622
Tame Impala · Innerspeaker519
SongOther Votes
LCD Soundsystem · "I Can Change"36
Yeasayer · "O.N.E."20
Vampire Weekend · "Giving Up the Gun"14
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings · "The Game Gets Old"2
Field Music · "Them That Do Nothing"1
Twista (ft. Raekwon) · "The Heat"1
Scissor Sisters · "Invisible Light"0
Seven That Spells · "Terminus Est"0
Tame Impala · "Runway, Houses, City, Clouds"0
Title Tracks · "Steady Love"0

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.1087Barry Walters · 2010
.1076Erin Thompson · 2010
2009 original ballot
Centricity.154#465 of 683
Metalism.000#161 of 697
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Neko Case · Middle Cyclone18105
(various artists) · Legends of Benin164
Bibio · Ambivalence Avenue1411
Bear in Heaven · Beast Rest Forth Mouth122
Andrew Bird · Noble Beast1112
Megafaun · Gather, Form, & Fly95
Califone · All of My Friends Are Funeral Singers56
Nomo · Invisible Cities53
Extra Golden · Thank You Very Quickly52
Kate Simko · Music From the Atom Smashers50
SongOther Votes
Neko Case · "This Tornado Loves You"18
Bear in Heaven · "Lovesick Teenagers"5
Surfer Blood · "Swim"4
Charlotte Gainsbourg · "I.R.M."1
Megafaun · "The Fade"1
Andrew Bird · "Anonanimal"0
Kate Simko · "God"0
Mountain Goats · "Genesis 3:23"0
Mulatu Astatke and the Heliocentrics · "Anglo-Ethio Suite"0
Nomo · "Patterns"0

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2008 original ballot
Centricity.319#241 of 568
Metalism.000#123 of 579
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Snowman · The Horse, the Rat and the Swan152
Hanggai · Introducing Hanggai150
Orchestra Baobab · Made in Dakar1112
Calexico · Carried to Dust107
Nomo · Ghost Rock105
Chicha Libre · Sonido Amazonico!102
Vapnet · Döda Fallet100
Amadou & Mariam · Welcome to Mali92
TV on the Radio · Dear Science5153
Fleet Foxes · Fleet Foxes587
SongOther Votes
Fleet Foxes · "White Winter Hymnal"31
Wire · "One of Us"4
TV on the Radio · "Lover's Day"2
Calexico · "Writer's Minor Holiday"1
Orchestra Baobab · "Nijaay"1
Etran Finatawa · "Kel Tamashek"0
Eyeless in Gaza · "Where Vivid Bloomed"0
Hanggai · "Five Heroes"0
Kassin + 2 · "Ponto Final"0
Natacha Atlas & the Mareeka Ensemble · "El Asil"0

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.0847Ellen Carpenter
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