| Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc. | |
| Blender (USA) - Standout Tracks from the 500 CDs You Must Own (2003) | No Order |
| Blender (USA) - Top 500 Songs of the 80s-00s (2005) | 341 |
| Bruce Pollock (USA) - The 7,500 Most Important Songs of 1944-2000 (2005) | No Order |
| Dave Marsh (USA) - The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made (1989) | 770 |
| Entertainment Weekly (USA) - Janet Jackson's 50 Best Songs of All Time, Ranked (2016) | 16 |
| Pitchfork (USA) - The 200 Best Songs of the 1980s (2015) | 201 |
| Slant (USA) - The 100 Best Singles of the 1980s (2012) | 80 |
| TimeOut Chicago (USA) - 50 Best '80s Songs (2015) | 41 |
| TimeOut New York (USA) - 50 Best '80s Songs (2016) | 50 |
| VH1 (USA) - Janet Jackson's 50 Greatest Songs of All Time (2016) | 7 |
| Giannis Petridis (Greece) - 2004 of the Best Songs of the Century (2003) | No Order |
| End of Year Lists | |
| Face (UK) - Singles of the Year | 31 |
| NME (UK) - Singles of the Year | 38 |