| 1,001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die, and 10,001 You Must Download (2015 Update)
| 1-1001 |
| Boom 99.7 (USA) - The Top 499 Songs of All Time (2016)
| 265 |
| Brad Carl (USA) - 50 Songs from the '70s and '80s That Still Hold Up (2015)
| No Order |
| Bruce Pollock (USA) - The 7,500 Most Important Songs of 1944-2000 (2005)
| No Order |
| Michaelangelo Matos (USA) - Top 100 Singles of the 1980s (2001)
| 101 |
| NBC-10 (USA) - The 30 Best Songs of the 80s (2006)
| No Order |
| OUT (USA) - The 25 Gayest Songs of the 1980s (2011)
| No Order |
| Pause & Play (USA) - Songs Inducted into a Time Capsule, One Track at Each Week
| No Order |
| Pitchfork (USA) - The Pitchfork 500 (2008)
| No Order |
| Rikky Rooksby (USA) - Inside 100 Classic Rock Tracks (2001)
| No Order |
| Rolling Stone (USA) - The 100 Best Singles of 1984 (2014)
| 30 |
| TimeOut (USA) - 1000 Songs to Change Your Life (2008)
| No Order |
| VH1 (USA) - Nominations for the 100 Greatest 80s Songs (2006)
| No Order |
| Woxy.com (USA) - Modern Rock 500 Songs of All Time (combined rank 1989-2009)
| 126 |
| BBC (UK) - Pop on Trial, Top 50 Songs from the 1980s (2008)
| No Order |
| Guardian (UK) - A history of modern music (2011)
| No Order |
| HarperCollins GEM (UK) - Single of the Year 1949-99 (1999)
| No Order |
| Mark Ellingham (USA) - The Rough Guide Book of Playlists: 5,000 Songs You Must Download (2007)
| No Order |
| Mojo (UK) - The 100 Greatest Singles of All Time (1997)
| 86 |
| NME (UK) - NME Rock Years, Single of the Year 1963-99 (2000)
| No Order |
| NME (UK) - The Top 150 Singles of All Time (1987)
| 123 |
| Q (UK) - 100 Songs That Changed the World (2003)
| 24 |
| Q (UK) - 50 Years of Great British Music, 10 Tracks per Decade (2008)
| No Order |
| Q (UK) - The 1001 Best Songs Ever (2003)
| No Order |
| Q (UK) - The 1010 Songs You Must Own (2004)
| No Order |
| Q (UK) - The 80 Best Records of the 80s (2006)
| 11 |
| Sounds (UK) - The 100 Best Singles of All Time (1986)
| 13 |
| The Guardian (UK) - 1000 Songs Everyone Must Hear (2009)
| No Order |
| Uncut (UK) - 100 Rock and Movie Icons (2005)
| 79 |
| Uncut (UK) - The 100 Greatest Singles from the Post-Punk Era (2001)
| 14 |
| Vox (UK) - 100 Records That Shook the World (1991)
| No Order |
| Musikexpress (Germany) - Die 75 Einflussreichsten Platten Aller Zeiten [The 75 Most Influential Records of All Time] (2012)
| No Order |
| Rolling Stone (Germany) - The 50 Best Songs of the 1980s (2010)
| No Order |
| Fréderic Platzer (France) - Le top 100 du pop [Top 100 Pop Songs] (2013)
| No Order |
| Gilles Verlant and Thomas Caussé (France) - 3000 Rock Classics (2009, update 2013)
| No Order |
| Les Inrockuptibles (France) - 1000 Indispensable Songs (2006)
| No Order |
| Zicabloc (France) - Top 10 Musique Annees 80 [Top 10 Songs of the 1980s] (2013)
| 5 |
| Carlo Herrera and Jose Luis Salas (Spain) - Alimenta Tus Oidos: 70 Playlists (2015)
| No Order |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Kerrang! (UK) - Singles of the Year
| 5 |
| NME (UK) - Singles of the Year
| 37 |
| Schlager (Sweden) - Singles of the Year
| 9 |
| Spex (Germany) - Singles of the Year
| 1 |