| 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) - Postscript (102 Songs) to The Heart of Rock & Soul (1998)
| No Order |
| Life (USA) - 40 Years of Rock & Roll, 5 Songs for Each Year 1952-91 (Updated 1995)
| No Order |
| Pitchfork (USA) - The 200 Best Songs of the 1980s (2015)
| 201 |
| Pitchfork (USA) - Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s (2010)
| 201 |
| Steve Sullivan (USA) - Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings Volumes 1-4 (2013, 2017)
| 401-500 |
| Woxy.com (USA) - Modern Rock 500 Songs of All Time (combined rank 1989-2009)
| 1032 |
| Q (UK) - The 1010 Songs You Must Own (2004)
| No Order |
| Panorama (Norway) - The 30 Best Singles of the Year 1970-98 (1999)
| 4 |
| Theater van het Sentiment, Radio 2 (NL) - Top 40 Songs by Year 1969-2000 (2013)
| 6 |
| Musikexpress (Germany) - The 50 Best Songs of the 1990s (2010)
| 32 |
| Musikexpress (Germany) - The 700 Best Songs of All Time (2014)
| 266 |
| Rolling Stone (Germany) - The Best Singles of 5 Decades (1997)
| No Order |
| Gilles Verlant and Thomas Caussé (France) - 3000 Rock Classics (2009, update 2013)
| No Order |
| Les Inrockuptibles (France) - 1000 Necessary Songs (2015)
| 101-1000 |
| Rock de Lux (Spain) - The Top 100 Songs from 1984-1993 (1993)
| 49 |
| 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 |
| Mucchio Selvaggio (Italy) - 17 Critics and Their Top 50 Songs (2002)
| 99 |
| Porcys (Poland) - The Best Songs of the 1990s (2013)
| 41 |
| Sounds (UK) - Singles of the Year
| 28 |
| Rock de Lux (Spain) - Songs of the Year
| 17 |