| Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc. | |
| Blender (USA) - Top 500 Songs of the 80s-00s (2005) | 242 |
| 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) | 550 |
| Ego Trip (USA) - Hip Hop's 40 Greatest Singles by Year 1980-98 (1999) | 6 |
| Michaelangelo Matos (USA) - Top 100 Singles of the 1980s (2001) | 91 |
| Onethirtybpm (USA) - The Top 100 Tracks of the 1980s (2011) | 92 |
| Pitchfork (USA) - The Pitchfork 500 (2008) | No Order |
| Swellsville, Chuck Eddy (USA) - The 100 Best Singles of the 80s (1990) | 45 |
| Treble (USA) - The Top 200 Songs of the 80s (2011) | 167 |
| Gary Mulholland (UK) - This Is Uncool: The 500 Best Singles Since Punk Rock (2002) | No Order |
| Toby Creswell (Australia) - 1001 Songs (2005) | No Order |
| End of Year Lists | |
| Hervé Bourhis (France) - Le Petit Livre Rock: The Juke Box Singles 1950-2009 | No Order |