| Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc. | |
| Blender (USA) - Top 500 Songs of the 80s-00s (2005) | 434 |
| 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) | 6 |
| Paul Williams (USA) - Rock and Roll: The 100 Best Singles of All Time (1993) | No Order |
| Q (UK) - The 1010 Songs You Must Own (2004) | No Order |
| Spex (Germany) - The Best Singles of the Century (1999) | No Order |
| Toby Creswell (Australia) - 1001 Songs (2005) | No Order |
| End of Year Lists | |
| Rolling Stone (USA) - Singles of the Year | No Order |
| Village Voice (USA) - Singles of the Year | 4 |
| New Musical Express (UK) - Singles of the Year | 10 |