| 1,001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die, and 10,001 You Must Download (2015 Update)
| 1-1001 |
| Dave Marsh & Kevin Stein (USA) - The 20 Best of the Top 40 Singles by Year (1981)
| 15 |
| Grammy Hall of Fame Albums and Songs (USA)
| No Order |
| National Recording Preservation Board (USA) - The National Recording Registry
| No Order |
| Stephin Merritt (Magnetic Fields) - The Best Recordings from 1900 to 1999
| No Order |
| Steve Sullivan (USA) - Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings Volumes 1-4 (2013, 2017)
| 1001-2750 |
| BBC (UK) - Pop on Trial, Top 50 Songs from the 1950s (2008)
| No Order |
| BBC Radio2 (UK) - Sold on Song, a Celebration of Great Songs and Songwriting
| No Order |
| Elspeth Beidas (UK) - 10,000 Things You Need to Know: The Big Book of Lists [100 Songs] (2016)
| No Order |
| Mark Ellingham (USA) - The Rough Guide Book of Playlists: 5,000 Songs You Must Download (2007)
| No Order |
| NME (UK) - The 100 Best Songs of the 1950s (2012)
| 76 |
| Neil McCormick, The Telegraph (UK) - The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time (2009)
| 47 |
| Neil McCormick, The Telegraph (UK) - The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time (2015)
| 46 |
| Sean Egan (USA) - The Little Black Book of Music: Key Songs (2007)
| No Order |
| Martijn Stoffer and Roel Bentz van de Berg (The Netherlands) - Atoomjukebox (2009)
| No Order |
| Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany) - 1020 Songs 1955-2005 (2005)
| No Order |
| Hervé Bourhis (France) - Le Petit Livre Rock: The Juke Box Singles 1950-2012
| No Order |
| Marty Willson-Piper, InDeepMusicArchive.net (Australia) - Song of the Day Selections (approx. 1983-present)
| No Order |
| Toby Creswell (Australia) - 1001 Songs (2005)
| No Order |
| Giannis Petridis (Greece) - 2004 of the Best Songs of the Century (2003)
| No Order |