| 1,001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die, and 10,001 You Must Download (2015 Update)
| 1002 |
| Bruce Pollock (USA) - The 7,500 Most Important Songs of 1944-2000 (2005)
| No Order |
| CMT (USA) - Impact: Songs That Changed the World (2002)
| No Order |
| Dave Marsh & Kevin Stein (USA) - The 20 Best of the Top 40 Singles by Year (1981)
| 2 |
| Dave Marsh (USA) - The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made (1989)
| 221 |
| Grammy Hall of Fame Albums and Songs (USA)
| No Order |
| Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History (USA) - Most Significant Rock Records (2006)
| No Order |
| Heartaches By the Number: Country Music's 500 Greatest Singles (USA, 2003)
| 207 |
| Life (USA) - 40 Years of Rock & Roll, 5 Songs for Each Year 1952-91 (Updated 1995)
| No Order |
| NPR (USA) - The 300 Most Important American Records of the 20th Century (1999)
| No Order |
| Pause & Play (USA) - 20 Songs of the 50's (2003)
| 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) - 40 Songs That Changed the World (2007)
| No Order |
| Rolling Stone (USA) - The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (2004)
| 18 |
| Rolling Stone (USA) - The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (Updated 2010)
| 18 |
| Steve Sullivan (USA) - Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings Volumes 1-4 (2013, 2017)
| 301-400 |
| Will Hermes, Details Magazine (USA) - The 40 Records That Shook the World (1998)
| No Order |
| inStash (USA) - Top 100: Greatest Songs (Of All Time) (2010)
| 74 |
| Charlie Gillett (UK) - Sound Of The City: Playlist 1946-1971 (1983)
| No Order |
| Dave Thompson (UK) - 1000 Songs that Rock Your World (2011)
| 145 |
| NME (UK) - The 100 Best Songs of the 1950s (2012)
| 50 |
| Q (UK) - 100 Songs That Changed the World (2003)
| 41 |
| Q (UK) - The 1001 Best Songs Ever (2003)
| No Order |
| Sean O'Hagan, The Observer (UK) - Fifty Years of Pop (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 |
| Rolling Stone (Germany) - The 500 Best Songs of All Time (2004)
| 39 |
| Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany) - 1020 Songs 1955-2005 (2005)
| No Order |
| Fréderic Platzer (France) - Le top 100 du rock [Top 100 Rock Songs] (2013)
| No Order |
| 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 |
| El Pais (Spain) - 100 Musicians Choose 100 Songs That Changed Their Lives (2009)
| 92 |
| Toby Creswell (Australia) - 1001 Songs (2005)
| No Order |
| Record Collectors (Japan) - 100 Best US Songs 1954-1966 (2009)
| 48 |
| Ezio Guaitamacchi (Italy) - Mille canzoni che ci hanno cambiato la vita [1,000 Songs That Changed Our Lives] (2009)
| No Order |
| Mauro Ronconi (Italy) - The Best Song from the 200 Best Albums (1998)
| No Order |
| Giannis Petridis (Greece) - 2004 of the Best Songs of the Century (2003)
| No Order |