| Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc. | |
| 97X (USA) - The 500 Best Modern Rock Songs of All Time (2008) | 30 |
| Bruce Pollock (USA) - The 7,500 Most Important Songs of 1944-2000 (2005) | No Order |
| Onethirtybpm (USA) - The Top 100 Tracks of the 1980s (2011) | 60 |
| Pitchfork (USA) - The Pitchfork 500 (2008) | No Order |
| Treble (USA) - The Top 200 Songs of the 80s (2011) | 6 |
| Sounds (UK) - The 100 Best Singles of All Time (1986) | 14 |
| Spex (Germany) - The Best Singles of the Century (1999) | No Order |
| Movement (New Zealand) - The 100 (+300) Greatest Songs of All Time (2004) | 66 |
| Toby Creswell (Australia) - 1001 Songs (2005) | No Order |
| End of Year Lists | |
| New Musical Express (UK) - Singles of the Year | 2 |
| Spex (Germany) - Singles of the Year | 1 |
| Hervé Bourhis (France) - Le Petit Livre Rock: The Juke Box Singles 1950-2009 | No Order |
| Rockerilla (Italy) - Singles of the Year | 5 |