| 1,001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die, and 10,001 You Must Download (2015 Update)
| 1002 |
| Blender (USA) - The 1001 Greatest Songs to Download Right Now! (2003)
| No Order |
| Blender (USA) - The Greatest Songs Ever, One Song Added Every Other Month
| No Order |
| Bruce Pollock (USA) - The 7,500 Most Important Songs of 1944-2000 (2005)
| No Order |
| Consequence of Sound (USA) - David Bowie's Top 70 Songs (2017)
| 13 |
| Dave Marsh & Kevin Stein (USA) - The 40 Best of the Top 40 Singles by Year (1981)
| 22 |
| Michaelangelo Matos (USA) - Top 100 Singles of the 1970s (2001)
| 101 |
| Pitchfork (USA) - The 200 Best Songs of the 1970s (and Recommended Listening) (2016)
| 44 |
| Rolling Stone (USA) - David Bowie: 30 Essential Songs (2016)
| No Order |
| Rolling Stone (USA) - The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (2004)
| 481 |
| Rolling Stone (USA) - The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (Updated 2010)
| 486 |
| Spin (USA) - The 100 Greatest Singles of All Time (1989)
| 19 |
| SportsAlcohol.com (USA) - The Top 32 David Bowie Songs (2016)
| 5 |
| Steve Crawford (USA) - 1,000 Essential Songs from the 1970s (2015)
| 101 |
| Ultimate Classic Rock (USA) - Every David Bowie Single, Ranked (2016)
| 3 |
| WZLX (USA) - 1,007 Greatest Songs of All Time (2015)
| 110 |
| BBC (UK) - Pop on Trial, Top 50 Songs from the 1970s (2008)
| No Order |
| Dave Thompson (UK) - 1000 Songs that Rock Your World (2011)
| 558 |
| Mojo (UK) - David Bowie: The 100 Greatest Songs (2015)
| 7 |
| Mojo (UK) - Top 30 David Bowie Songs (2003)
| 22 |
| NME (UK) - Bowie: His Real Greatest Hits (2014)
| 4 |
| NME (UK) - The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (2014)
| 62 |
| Uncut (UK) - David Bowie's 30 Best Songs (2008)
| 17 |
| Nerikes Allehanda (Sweden) - The 50 Best Rock Songs of All Time (1992)
| 29 |
| Panorama (Norway) - The 30 Best Singles of the Year 1970-98 (1999)
| 4 |
| Eclipsed (Germany) - Top 30 David Bowie Songs (2013)
| 17 |
| Hartbeat! (Germany) - Top 100 Singles by 15 Critics (1997)
| 225 |
| Rolling Stone (Germany) - The 101 Best David Bowie Songs (2016)
| 24 |
| 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 |
| Rolling Stone (Spain) - The 30 Best David Bowie Songs (2013)
| 15 |
| Toby Creswell (Australia) - 1001 Songs (2005)
| No Order |
| Toby Creswell (Australia) - Rockwiz Decades: The Greatest Songs of Our Time (2015)
| 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 |
| NME (UK) - Singles of the Year
| 6 |