| Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc. | |
| Blender (USA) - Top 500 Songs of the 80s-00s (2005) | 160 |
| 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) | 2 |
| Swellsville, Chuck Eddy (USA) - The 100 Best Singles of the 80s (1990) | 48 |
| Paul Morley (UK) - Words and Music, 210 Greatest Pop Singles of All Time (2003) | No Order |
| Movement (New Zealand) - The 100 (+300) Greatest Songs of All Time (2004) | 101 |
| End of Year Lists | |
| Rolling Stone (USA) - Singles of the Year | No Order |
| Village Voice (USA) - Singles of the Year | 12 |
| New Musical Express (UK) - Singles of the Year | 18 |
| Rockerilla (Italy) - Singles of the Year | 4 |