| Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc. | |
| 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) | 20 |
| Dave Marsh (USA) - The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made (1989) | 342 |
| Steve Sullivan (USA) - Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings Volumes 1-4 (2013, 2017) | 1001-2750 |
| Mark Ellingham (USA) - The Rough Guide Book of Playlists: 5,000 Songs You Must Download (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 |
| Giannis Petridis (Greece) - 2004 of the Best Songs of the Century (2003) | No Order |