| Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc. | |
| 1,001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die, and 10,001 You Must Download (2015 Update) | 1002 |
| Ego Trip (USA) - Hip Hop's 40 Greatest Singles by Year 1980-98 (1999) | 16 |
| TimeOut (USA) - 1000 Songs to Change Your Life (2008) | No Order |
| Spex (Germany) - The Best Singles of the Century (1999) | No Order |
| Vincent Piolet (France) - Birth of French Hip-Hop: Most Significant Songs of the 1980s (2015) | 33 |
| End of Year Lists | |
| NME (UK) - Singles of the Year | 28 |
| Spex (Germany) - Singles of the Year | 2 |