| Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc. | |
| Blender (USA) - Top 500 Songs of the 80s-00s (2005) | 356 |
| 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) | 8 |
| Paul Williams (USA) - Rock and Roll: The 100 Best Singles of All Time (1993) | No Order |
| PopMatters (USA) - The 100 Best Songs Since Johnny Rotten Roared (2003) | 84 |
| Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (USA)- The Songs That Shaped Rock (Additions 2011) | No Order |
| Mojo (UK) - 80 from the 80s: Our Fave 45s for Each Year, 1980-1989 (2007) | 5 |
| Les Inrockuptibles (France) - 1000 Indispensable Songs (2006) | No Order |
| End of Year Lists | |
| Village Voice (USA) - Singles of the Year | 13 |
| Hervé Bourhis (France) - Le Petit Livre Rock: The Juke Box Singles 1950-2009 | No Order |