| 1,001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die, and 10,001 You Must Download (2015 Update)
| 1-1001 |
| Beats Per Minute (USA) - The Top 100 Tracks of the 1980s (2011)
| 50 |
| Blender (USA) - Standout Tracks from the 500 CDs You Must Own (2003)
| No Order |
| Blender (USA) - The Greatest Songs Ever, One Song Added Every Other Month
| No Order |
| Blender (USA) - Top 500 Songs of the 80s-00s (2005)
| 12 |
| Bruce Pollock (USA) - The 7,500 Most Important Songs of 1944-2000 (2005)
| No Order |
| Consequence of Sound (USA) - The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time (2012)
| 83 |
| Dave Marsh (USA) - The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made (1989)
| 87 |
| Ego Trip (USA) - Hip Hop's 40 Greatest Singles by Year 1980-98 (1999)
| 1 |
| Grammy Hall of Fame Albums and Songs (USA)
| No Order |
| Life (USA) - Dozen Discs That Shook the World (2005)
| No Order |
| Michaelangelo Matos (USA) - Top 100 Singles of the 1980s (2001)
| 27 |
| NPR (USA) - The 300 Most Important American Records of the 20th Century (1999)
| No Order |
| National Recording Preservation Board (USA) - The National Recording Registry
| No Order |
| Paul Williams (USA) - Rock and Roll: The 100 Best Singles of All Time (1993)
| No Order |
| Pause & Play (USA) - 10 Songs of the 80's (2003)
| No Order |
| Pause & Play (USA) - Songs Inducted into a Time Capsule, One Track at Each Week
| No Order |
| Pitchfork (USA) - The 200 Best Songs of the 1980s (2015)
| 9 |
| Pitchfork (USA) - The Pitchfork 500 (2008)
| No Order |
| PopMatters (USA) - The 100 Best Songs Since Johnny Rotten Roared (2003)
| 11 |
| Popdose (USA) - 100 (+21) Favorite Singles of the Last 50 Years (2008)
| 98 |
| QuestLove (USA) - 50 Favorite Songs (2012)
| 5 |
| RIAA and NEA (USA) - 365 Songs of the Century (2001)
| 280 |
| Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (USA) - 500 Songs That Shaped Rock (1995)
| No Order |
| Rolling Stone (USA) - The 100 Best Singles of the Last 25 Years (1988)
| 25 |
| Rolling Stone (USA) - The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (2004)
| 51 |
| Rolling Stone (USA) - The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (Updated 2010)
| 51 |
| Shea Serrano (USA) - The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song from Every Year Since 1979 (2015)
| No Order |
| Slant (USA) - The 100 Best Singles of the 1980s (2012)
| 6 |
| Steve Sullivan (USA) - Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings Volumes 1-4 (2013, 2017)
| 101-200 |
| Swellsville, Chuck Eddy (USA) - The 100 Best Singles of the 80s (1990)
| 82 |
| The Boombox (USA) - The 25 Best '80s Songs (2014)
| 1 |
| The Source (USA) - The 100 Best Rap Singles of All Time (1998)
| No Order |
| The Source (USA) - Top 151 Rap Songs of All Time (2003)
| 1 |
| TimeOut (USA) - 1000 Songs to Change Your Life (2008)
| No Order |
| Treble (USA) - The Top 200 Songs of the 80s (2011)
| 36 |
| VH1 (USA) - Nominations for the 100 Greatest 80s Songs (2006)
| No Order |
| VH1 (USA) - The 100 Greatest Songs from the Past 25 Years (2003)
| 27 |
| Woxy.com (USA) - Modern Rock 500 Songs of All Time (combined rank 1989-2009)
| 619 |
| XXL (USA) - 40 Years of Hip-Hop: Top 5 Singles by Year (2014)
| No Order |
| pc muñoz (USA) - Verse-Chorus-Verse: A Column Dedicated to Great Songs
| No Order |
| 2FM (Ireland) - Top 100 Singles of All Time (2003)
| 46 |
| BBC Radio 6 Music (UK) - Alternative Jukebox: 500 Extraordinary Tracks That Tell the Story of Alternative Music (2014)
| No Order |
| Dorian Lynskey (USA) - 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs (2011)
| No Order |
| Elspeth Beidas (UK) - 10,000 Things You Need to Know: The Big Book of Lists [100 Songs] (2016)
| No Order |
| Elvis Costello - The Best Songs from the 500 Best Albums Ever (2000)
| No Order |
| Gary Mulholland (UK) - This Is Uncool: The 500 Best Singles Since Punk Rock (2002)
| No Order |
| Guardian (UK) - A history of modern music (2011)
| No Order |
| HarperCollins GEM (UK) - Single of the Year 1949-99 (1999)
| No Order |
| IDJ Magazine (UK) - The 50 Greatest Dance Singles (2004)
| 50 |
| John Peel (UK) - Peelenium: Four Tracks from Each Year of the Last Century (1999)
| No Order |
| Mojo (UK) - 80 from the 80s: Our Fave 45s for Each Year, 1980-1989 (2007)
| 1 |
| Mojo (UK) - The 100 Records That Changed the World (2007)
| 29 |
| NME (UK) - NME Rock Years, Single of the Year 1963-99 (2000)
| No Order |
| NME (UK) - The 100 Best Songs of NME's Lifetime (2012)
| 58 |
| NME (UK) - The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (2014)
| 97 |
| NME (UK) - The Top 150 Singles of All Time (1987)
| 17 |
| Paul Roland (UK) - CD Guide to Pop & Rock, 100 Essential Singles (2001)
| No Order |
| Q (UK) - 100 Songs That Changed the World (2003)
| 14 |
| Q (UK) - The 1001 Best Songs Ever (2003)
| No Order |
| Q (UK) - The 80 Best Records of the 80s (2006)
| 22 |
| Q (UK) - The Ultimate Music Collection (2005)
| No Order |
| Sean Egan (USA) - 500 Songs You Need to Hear (2006)
| No Order |
| The Guardian (UK) - 1000 Songs Everyone Must Hear (2009)
| No Order |
| Vox (UK) - 100 Records That Shook the World (1991)
| No Order |
| Helsingin Sanomat (Finland) - 50th Anniversary of Rock (2004)
| No Order |
| Panorama (Norway) - The 30 Best Singles of the Year 1970-98 (1999)
| 6 |
| 3FM (The Netherlands) - 3 voor 12: 312 Essentials (2013)
| No Order |
| Berlin Media (Germany) - The 100 Best Singles of All Time (1998)
| 49 |
| Musikexpress (Germany) - The 700 Best Songs of All Time (2014)
| 61 |
| Neon (Germany) - Die 222 besten Songs aller Zeiten [The 222 Best Songs of All Time] (2008)
| No Order |
| Rolling Stone (Germany) - The 50 Best Songs of the 1980s (2010)
| No Order |
| Rolling Stone (Germany) - The 500 Best Songs of All Time (2004)
| 86 |
| Rolling Stone (Germany) - The Best Singles of 5 Decades (1997)
| No Order |
| Spex (Germany) - The Best Singles of the Century (1999)
| No Order |
| Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany) - 1020 Songs 1955-2005 (2005)
| No Order |
| ZEIT (Germany) - 100 Modern Classics (2007)
| 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 |
| Les Inrockuptibles (France) - 1000 Indispensable Songs (2006)
| No Order |
| Les Inrockuptibles (France) - 1000 Necessary Songs (2015)
| 101-1000 |
| Rolling Stone (France) - The 100 Best Singles of the Last 25 Years (1988)
| 96 |
| Vincent Piolet (France) - Birth of French Hip-Hop: Most Significant Songs of the 1980s (2015)
| 1 |
| Rock de Lux (Spain) - The Top 150 Songs from the 20th Century (1998)
| 80 |
| Toby Creswell (Australia) - 1001 Songs (2005)
| No Order |
| Toby Creswell (Australia) - Rockwiz Decades: The Greatest Songs of Our Time (2015)
| No Order |
| Ezio Guaitamacchi (Italy) - Mille canzoni che ci hanno cambiato la vita [1,000 Songs That Changed Our Lives] (2009)
| No Order |
| Rumore (Italy) - Top 300 Songs of All Time (2017)
| 58 |
| Giannis Petridis (Greece) - 2004 of the Best Songs of the Century (2003)
| No Order |
| Rolling Stone (USA) - Singles of the Year
| No Order |
| Village Voice (USA) - Singles of the Year
| 1 |
| Melody Maker (UK) - Single of the Year
| 1 |
| NME (UK) - Singles of the Year
| 1 |
| Sounds (UK) - Singles of the Year
| 1 |
| Schlager (Sweden) - Singles of the Year
| 9 |
