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.
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Overall
Centricity.073#1168 of 1281
Breadth.447#506 of 1297
Metalism.000#425 of 1297
2014 original ballot
Centricity.090#509 of 601
Metalism.000#97 of 612
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Thumbscrew · Thumbscrew150
Jim Roll · The Continuing Adventures of the Butterfly Kid140
Led Bib · The People in Your Neighbourhood130
Rosanne Cash · The River & the Thread1227
Medeski, Martin, & Wood + Nels Cline · Woodstock Sessions Volume 2110
Chihei Hatakeyama · Void V90
Wovenhand · Refractory Obdurate81
Ty Segall · Manipulator733
Dylan Ryan/Sand · Circa60
Hiss Golden Messenger · Lateness of Dancers515

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.1124Jay Ruttenberg · 2014
.0684Matthew Oshinsky · 2014
.0322Dan Ferguson · 2014
.0322Matthew Horne · 2014
.0322Salvatore Caputo · 2014
.0322Steve Klinge · 2014
.0312Allen St John · 2014
.0312Steve Rosen · 2014
.0302Brett Koshkin · 2014
.0302Larry King · 2014
.0302Meredith Ochs · 2014
.0292Jeff Tamarkin · 2014
.0292Jim Bessman · 2014
.0292Lee Zimmerman · 2014
.0292Mike Berick · 2014
.0292Roy Kasten · 2014
.0282David Pehling · 2014
.0282Grant Moser · 2014
.0282Matt Sebastian · 2014
.0272Jaime Lees · 2014
.0272Katherine Turman · 2014
.0272Stephen Haag · 2014
2013 original ballot
Centricity.148#340 of 453
Metalism.000#115 of 457
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Ches Smith and These Arches · Hammered151
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds · Push the Sky Away1426
Ben Goldberg · Unfold Ordinary Mind131
Paramore · Paramore1220
Caitlin Rose · The Stand-In114
Ashley Monroe · Like a Rose930
Civil Wars · The Civil Wars85
Sam Amidon · Bright Sunny South72
Thermals · Desperate Ground60
Low · The Invisible Way59

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.1124Jennifer Kelly · 2013
.1104Jason Ferguson · 2013
.0985Rob Harvilla · 2013
.0784Jon Solomon · 2013
.0774Dan Kois · 2013
.0744D. Patrick Rodgers · 2013
.0704Elliott Sharp · 2013
.0664Alfred Soto · 2013
.0644Chris Richards · 2013
.0413Ellis Widner · 2013
.0403Jon Bream · 2013
.0393Dan DeLuca · 2013
.0393Robert Loerzel · 2013
.0352Will York · 2013
.0343Dave Heaton · 2013
.0342Josh Modell · 2013
.0312Allen St John · 2013
.0312Preston Jones · 2013
.0302Jim DeRogatis · 2013
.0292Buzz Poole · 2013
2012 original ballot
Centricity.040#457 of 485
Metalism.000#94 of 493
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Salim Nourallah · Hit Parade152
Ray Wylie Hubbard · The Grifter's Hymnal144
Eivind Opsvik · Overseas IV130
Shearwater · Animal Joy126
mewithoutYou · Ten Stories110
River City Extension · Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Your Anger91
Gift of Gab · The Next Logical Progression80
Low Cut Connie · Call Me Sylvia72
Lindstrøm · Smalhans65
Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby · A Working Museum52

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.0362Thor Christensen · 2012
.0332Jennifer Kelly · 2012
.0332Jim Allen · 2012
.0332J. R. Taylor · 2012
.0332Mark Keresman · 2012
.0322Catherine Lewis · 2012
.0322Will Romano · 2012
.0232Richard Skanse · 2012
.0222J. Anthony Ware · 2012
.0212Evan Sawdey · 2012
.0212Hobey Echlin · 2012
.0212Matt Rice · 2012
.0212Mike Orme · 2012
.0212Roy Kasten · 2012
.0212Spencer Kornhaber · 2012
.0202Ben Donnelly · 2012
.0202Ben Westhoff · 2012
.0202Steve Erickson · 2012
.0192Adrienne Day · 2008
.0192Annie Zaleski · 2012
.0192Kurt B. Reighley · 2012
.0192Mark Deming · 2012
2011 original ballot
Centricity.045#638 of 693
Metalism.000#140 of 700
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Gutbucket · Flock150
Ages and Ages · Alright You Restless140
Seabrook Power Plant · Seabrook Power Plant II130
Craig Taborn · Avenging Angel126
Akron/Family · Akron/Family II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT111
John Vanderslice · White Wilderness90
Roberts & Lord · Eponymous80
Shelby Lynne · Revelation Road76
Elbow · Build a Rocket Boys!612
Lucinda Williams · Blessed59

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.0342Curtis Schieber · 2011
.0342Peter Margasak · 2011
.0332David Shirley · 2011
.0332Evie Nagy · 2011
.0332Jose Davila · 2011
.0322Carrie Havranek · 2008
.0322Josh Modell · 2011
.0322Phil Sutcliffe · 2011
.0322Randy Lewis · 2011
.0312Gail Worley · 2011
.0302Ernesto Lechner · 2011
.0302Jay Lustig · 2008
.0302Salvatore Caputo · 2011
.0292Ellen Carpenter · 2008
.0262Nick Duerden · 2011
.0232Jim Macnie · 2011
.0222Marianne Meyer · 2011
.0222Nate Chinen · 2011
.0212Erik Kenward · 2011
.0212Ethan Stanislawski · 2011
.0212Jon Solomon · 2011
.0212Richard Skanse · 2011
.0212Seth Colter Walls · 2011
2010 original ballot
Centricity.119#529 of 699
Metalism.000#121 of 712
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Nels Cline Singers · Initiate152
Jason Moran & Bandwagon · Ten1410
Mynabirds · What We Lose in the Fire We Gain in the Flood138
Big Boi · Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty12119
Danny! · Where Is Danny?110
Rita Indiana y Los Misterios · El Juidero95
Eric Bibb · Booker's Guitar80
Northern Portrait · Criminal Art Lovers70
Little Women · Throat65
Jerry Leake · Cubist50

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.0764Carlos Reyes · 2010
.0694Eric Harvey · 2010
.0674Seth Colter Walls · 2010
.0634Nate Chinen · 2010
.0352Steve Jansen · 2010
.0342Sean Murphy · 2010
.0332Brad Cohan · 2010
.0332Dan Ferguson · 2010
.0332Jon Young · 2010
.0332Mike Berick · 2010
.0332Tad Hendrickson · 2010
.0322Etan Rosenbloom · 2010
.0322Michael J. West · 2010
.0312Will Layman · 2010
.0242Andrew Geraghty · 2010
.0242Elliott Sharp · 2010
.0232Aaron Norman · 2010
.0232Anthony Lombardi · 2010
.0232Blanca Méndez · 2010
.0232Matthew Perpetua · 2010
.0232Max Berry · 2010
2009 original ballot
Centricity.036#642 of 683
Metalism.000#161 of 697
AlbumPointsOther Votes
mewithoutYou · It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All a Dream! It's Alright!190
DM Stith · Heavy Ghost131
Derek Webb · Stockholm Syndrome120
Akron/Family · Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free1111
David Crowder Band · Church Music100
Andy Milne and Benoit Delbecq · Where Is Pannonica?90
Jookabox · Dead Zone Boys80
Mountain Goats · The Life of the World to Come716
Beat Circus · Boy From Black Mountain60
Linda Oh Trio · Entry51

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.0403Matt Fiander · 2009
.0362George Varga · 2009
.0362Ken Micallef · 2009
.0302Lindsay Zoladz · 2009
.0282Jaan Uhelszki · 2009
.0282Michael Goldberg · 2010
.0262Michael Goldberg · 2009
.0262Rob O'Connor · 2009
.0222Michael Connelly · 2009
.0222Saul Austerlitz · 2009
.0222Spencer Patterson · 2009
.0212Evan Sawdey · 2009
.0212Paul Robicheau · 2009
.0202Jennifer Kelly · 2009
.0202Richard Gehr · 2009
.0202Seth Colter Walls · 2009
.0192Doug Wallen · 2009
.0192Justin Spicer · 2009
.0182Jed Lipinski · 2009
.0172Andrew Gilstrap · 2009
.0172Andrew Hall · 2009
.0172Heidi Vanderlee · 2009
.0172Michael Lach · 2009
.0172Theon Weber · 2009
2008 original ballot
Centricity.032#541 of 568
Metalism.000#123 of 579
AlbumPointsOther Votes
Aaron Parks · Invisible Cinema190
Shackeltons · The Shackeltons130
Flight of the Conchords · Flight of the Conchords1210
Duke Spirit · Neptune116
Marco Benevento · Invisible Baby100
Public Record · Public Record90
Woven Hand · Ten Stones81
Jookabox · Ropechain70
Lucksmiths · First Frost60
Avishai Cohen Trio · Gently Disturbed51

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.0764Zeth Lundy · 2008
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.0242David A Cobb · 2008
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.0222John Hood · 2008
.0222Liz Ohanesian · 2008
.0222Steve Haruch · 2008
.0212Adam Mazmanian · 2008
.0212James Rodgers · 2008
.0212Lindsey Thomas · 2008
.0212Mike Cimicata · 2008
.0202Chris Neal · 2008
.0202Lissa Townsend Rodgers · 2008
.0202Marianne Meyer · 2008
.0202Tom Lane · 2008
Similar Voters
.06712Jennifer Kelly
.0518Seth Colter Walls
.0436John Hood
.04210Jon Solomon
.03711J. Anthony Ware
.0358Elliott Sharp
.0356Matt Fiander
.0336Steve Haruch
.0327Dan Ferguson
.0326Mike Berick
.0319Evan Sawdey
.0304Salvatore Caputo
.0298Jon Bream
.0296Zeth Lundy
.0295Evie Nagy
.0295Josh Modell
.0286Nate Chinen
.0276Dan Kois
.0256Mark Deming
.0254Dan Caffrey
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