| 1,001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die, and 10,001 You Must Download (2015 Update)
| 1-1001 |
| Bruce Pollock (USA) - The 7,500 Most Important Songs of 1944-2000 (2005)
| No Order |
| Dave Marsh (USA) - The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made (1989)
| 965 |
| Greil Marcus (USA) - STRANDED: "Treasure Island" Singles (1979)
| No Order |
| Pause & Play (USA) - Songs Inducted into a Time Capsule, One Track at Each Week
| No Order |
| Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (USA) - 500 Songs That Shaped Rock (1995)
| No Order |
| Rolling Stone (USA) - 50 Essential Recordings from the 50s (1990)
| 48 |
| Rolling Stone (USA) - The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (2004)
| 313 |
| Rolling Stone (USA) - The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (Updated 2010)
| 320 |
| Steve Sullivan (USA) - Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings Volumes 1-4 (2013, 2017)
| 1001-2750 |
| NME (UK) - The 100 Best Songs of the 1950s (2012)
| 29 |
| Paul Morley (UK) - Words and Music, 210 Greatest Pop Singles of All Time (2003)
| No Order |
| Paul Roland (UK) - CD Guide to Pop & Rock, 100 Essential Singles (2001)
| No Order |
| Q (UK) - The 1001 Best Songs Ever (2003)
| No Order |
| Sean Egan (USA) - 500 Songs You Need to Hear (2006)
| No Order |
| The Word (UK) - 110 Songs You Have to Hear! (2004)
| No Order |
| Helsingin Sanomat (Finland) - 50th Anniversary of Rock (2004)
| No Order |
| Martijn Stoffer and Roel Bentz van de Berg (The Netherlands) - Atoomjukebox (2009)
| No Order |
| Hartbeat! (Germany) - Top 100 Singles by 15 Critics (1997)
| 77 |
| Musikexpress (Germany) - The 700 Best Songs of All Time (2014)
| 206 |
| Rolling Stone (Germany) - The 500 Best Songs of All Time (2004)
| 375 |
| Gilles Verlant and Thomas Caussé (France) - 3000 Rock Classics (2009, update 2013)
| No Order |
| Hervé Bourhis (France) - Le Petit Livre Rock: The Juke Box Singles 1950-2012
| No Order |
| Les Inrockuptibles (France) - 1000 Necessary Songs (2015)
| 101-1000 |
| Rock de Lux (Spain) - The Top 150 Songs from the 20th Century (1998)
| 91 |
| Ezio Guaitamacchi (Italy) - Mille canzoni che ci hanno cambiato la vita [1,000 Songs That Changed Our Lives] (2009)
| No Order |
| Mucchio Selvaggio (Italy) - 17 Critics and Their Top 50 Songs (2002)
| 99 |
| Giannis Petridis (Greece) - 2004 of the Best Songs of the Century (2003)
| No Order |