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.
Will Dana
Overall
Centricity.605#100 of 1313
Breadth.170#1101 of 1329
Metalism.000#442 of 1329
2010 original ballot
Centricity.605#69 of 699
Metalism.000#121 of 712
AlbumPointsOther Votes
The National · High Violet2596
Black Keys · Brothers2088
Vampire Weekend · Contra10119
Deer Tick · The Black Dirt Sessions103
Jerry Lee Lewis · Mean Old Man100
Kanye West · My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy5265
LCD Soundsystem · This Is Happening5151
Spoon · Transference537
Robert Plant · Band of Joy527
Dean & Britta · 13 Most Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests51
SongOther Votes
Kanye West (ft. Pusha T) · "Runaway"76
The National · "Bloodbuzz Ohio"40
LCD Soundsystem · "I Can Change"36
Broken Bells · "The High Road"14
New Pornographers · "Crash Years"14
Yeasayer · "Ambling Alp"13
Black Keys · "Everlasting Light"4
MGMT · "Congratulations"4
Eminem (ft. Lil Wayne) · "No Love"2
Paul Simon · "Getting Ready for Christmas Day"0

Similar Ballots
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.21712Scott Mervis · 2010
.20311Corey Moss · 2010
.19611Puja Patel · 2010
.19311Glenn Gamboa · 2010
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.18710Althea Legaspi · 2010
.18611Chris Molanphy · 2010
.18110Anthony Lombardi · 2010
.17910Dan Gibson · 2010
.1768Rob Trucks · 2010
.17510Mike Greenhaus · 2010
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Similar Voters
.1227Toure
.12014Michael Endelman
.11911Jeremiah McNeil
.11715Julia Simon
.11211Corey Moss
.10011Puja Patel
.09610Serene Dominic
.09511Brian Braiker
.0927Lindsey Holder
.08410Dan Gibson
.0809Shawn Anderson
.0716Josh Baron
.0646Kem Poston
.0618Ramit Singh
.0599Bret Gladstone
.0599Thor Christensen
.05515Scott Mervis
.05510Pete Freedman
.0556Eric Elbogen
.0556Shawn Edwards
Poll administered by the Village Voice  ·  Tabulation and analysis by glenn mcdonald / furia.com