| Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc. | |
| Blender (USA) - Top 500 Songs of the 80s-00s (2005) | 339 |
| 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 |
| Spin (USA) - The 100 Greatest Singles of All Time (1989) | 25 |
| End of Year Lists | |
| Face (UK) - Singles of the Year | 3 |
| New Musical Express (UK) - Singles of the Year | 6 |