| 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 & Kevin Stein (USA) - The 40 Best of the Top 40 Singles by Year (1981)
| 12 |
| Dave Marsh (USA) - The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made (1989)
| 627 |
| DiscoMusic.com - Top 700 Disco Songs (2003)
| 287 |
| Ego Trip (USA) - Hip Hop's 15 Greatest Singles from 1979 (1999)
| 1 |
| Grammy Hall of Fame Albums and Songs (USA)
| No Order |
| 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 |
| Pause & Play (USA) - Songs Inducted into a Time Capsule, One Track at Each Week
| No Order |
| Pitchfork (USA) - The 200 Best Songs of the 1970s (and Recommended Listening) (2016)
| 50 |
| PopMatters (USA) - The 100 Best Songs Since Johnny Rotten Roared (2003)
| 4 |
| QuestLove (USA) - 50 Favorite Songs (2012)
| 2 |
| RIAA and NEA (USA) - 365 Songs of the Century (2001)
| 162 |
| 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)
| 248 |
| Rolling Stone (USA) - The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (Updated 2010)
| 251 |
| San Antonio Express-News (USA) - Rock 'n' roll timeline (2004)
| No Order |
| Shea Serrano (USA) - The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song from Every Year Since 1979 (2015)
| No Order |
| Steve Crawford (USA) - 1,000 Essential Songs from the 1970s (2015)
| 101 |
| Steve Sullivan (USA) - Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings Volumes 1-4 (2013, 2017)
| 801-900 |
| 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)
| 2 |
| TimeOut (USA) - 1000 Songs to Change Your Life (2008)
| No Order |
| Treble (USA) - The Top 200 Songs of the 1970s (2012)
| 113 |
| VH1 (USA) - The 100 Greatest Songs from the Past 25 Years (2003)
| 35 |
| Will Hermes, Details Magazine (USA) - The 40 Records That Shook the World (1998)
| No Order |
| XXL (USA) - 40 Years of Hip-Hop: Top 5 Singles by Year (2014)
| No Order |
| 2FM (Ireland) - Top 100 Singles of All Time (2003)
| 57 |
| BBC Radio 6 Music (UK) - Alternative Jukebox: 500 Extraordinary Tracks That Tell the Story of Alternative Music (2014)
| No Order |
| Elspeth Beidas (UK) - 10,000 Things You Need to Know: The Big Book of Lists [100 Songs] (2016)
| 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 |
| NME (UK) - The 100 Best Songs of the 1970s (2012)
| 22 |
| NME (UK) - The Top 150 Singles of All Time (1987)
| 91 |
| Q (UK) - 100 Songs That Changed the World (2003)
| 4 |
| Q (UK) - The 1010 Songs You Must Own (2004)
| No Order |
| 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 |
| Musikexpress (Germany) - Die 75 Einflussreichsten Platten Aller Zeiten [The 75 Most Influential Records of All Time] (2012)
| No Order |
| Neon (Germany) - Die 222 besten Songs aller Zeiten [The 222 Best Songs of All Time] (2008)
| No Order |
| Rolling Stone (Germany) - The 500 Best Songs of All Time (2004)
| 312 |
| Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany) - 1020 Songs 1955-2005 (2005)
| 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 |
| Jean-Eric Perrin (France) - 100 plus grands tubes disco à télécharger [100 Greatest Disco Hits to Download] (2008)
| No Order |
| Les Inrockuptibles (France) - 1000 Indispensable Songs (2006)
| No Order |
| Les Inrockuptibles (France) - 1000 Necessary Songs (2015)
| 101-1000 |
| Vincent Piolet (France) - Birth of French Hip-Hop: Most Significant Songs of the 1980s (2015)
| 7 |
| Carlo Herrera and Jose Luis Salas (Spain) - Alimenta Tus Oidos: 70 Playlists (2015)
| No Order |
| Javier Blánquez & Omar Morena (Spain) - Loops, a History of Electronic Music (2002)
| No Order |
| Rock de Lux (Spain) - The Top 150 Songs from the 20th Century (1998)
| 132 |
| Ezio Guaitamacchi (Italy) - Mille canzoni che ci hanno cambiato la vita [1,000 Songs That Changed Our Lives] (2009)
| No Order |
| Luca Sofri (Italy) - Playlist: 2978 canzoni di cui non potete fare a meno [2,978 Songs You Can't Live Without] (2008)
| No Order |
| Massimo Cotto (Italy) - We Will Rock You: 709 Canzoni [709 Songs] (2009)
| No Order |
| Giannis Petridis (Greece) - 2004 of the Best Songs of the Century (2003)
| No Order |
| Village Voice (USA) - Singles of the Year
| 22 |