The Village Voice's 2012 Pazz & Jop critics poll's results are out. The Voice's slow collapse had a banner year, and some great people were let go from the paper in 2012, including the editor who occasionally let me write for the VV site, Maura Johnston. But she still voted in P&J, as did I, and some people didn't but generally it was much the same as in other years. This was my 6th year voting, and only the second time that anything I voted for got into the poll's top 10 albums (Miguel this time, Erykah Badu in 2008), which was pretty gratifying considering that a few months ago I never expected Miguel to get proper respect from critics in "the year of Frank Ocean." Here is my ballot. As usual, Glenn McDonald tabulated the poll, and made a secondary P&J stats site that I always find interesting, info my on my ballot is here.

In case you may suspect that I have some sort of list-making sickness, I will now confirm that indeed I do by ranking all the ones I've made the last couple months.

The Top 14 Year-End Lists I Made for 2012:

1. The 20 Best (and 10 Worst) R&B Radio Hits of 2012
2. The 10 Best Deluxe Edition Bonus Tracks of 2012
3. Top 10 Baltimore Club Tracks of 2012
4. Top 50 Albums of 2012
5. The 20 Best (and 20 Worst) Hip-Hop/R&B Remixes of 2012
6. Top 50 TV Shows of 2012 
7. The 20 Best (and 10 worst) Country Radio Hits of 2012
8. The 20 Best (and 10 worst) Rock/Alternative Radio Hits of 2012
9. Top 10 Local (Baltimore) Hip-Hop Albums of 2012
10. Top 100 Singles of 2012
11. The 20 Best (and 10 worst) Rap Radio Hits of 2012
12. Top 10 Hip-Hop Albums of 2012
13. The 20 Best (and 10 worst) Pop Radio Hits of 2012
14. Top 10 Dance Tracks of 2012

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