| 1,001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die, and 10,001 You Must Download (2015 Update)
| 1-1001 |
| Bruce Pollock (USA) - The 7,500 Most Important Songs of 1944-2000 (2005)
| No Order |
| Dave Marsh & Kevin Stein (USA) - The 40 Best of the Top 40 Singles by Year (1981)
| 2 |
| Dave Marsh (USA) - The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made (1989)
| 33 |
| Grammy Hall of Fame Albums and Songs (USA)
| No Order |
| Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History (USA) - Most Significant Rock Records (2006)
| No Order |
| Heartaches By the Number: Country Music's 500 Greatest Singles (USA, 2003)
| 340 |
| Life (USA) - 40 Years of Rock & Roll, 5 Songs for Each Year 1952-91 (Updated 1995)
| No Order |
| National Recording Preservation Board (USA) - The National Recording Registry
| No Order |
| Pause & Play (USA) - 20 Songs of the 50's (2003)
| No Order |
| Pause & Play (USA) - Songs Inducted into a Time Capsule, One Track at Each Week
| No Order |
| Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (USA) - 500 Songs That Shaped Rock (1995)
| No Order |
| Rolling Stone (USA) - The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (2004)
| 39 |
| Rolling Stone (USA) - The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (Updated 2010)
| 39 |
| San Antonio Express-News (USA) - Rock 'n' roll timeline (2004)
| No Order |
| Steve Sullivan (USA) - Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings Volumes 1-4 (2013, 2017)
| 401-500 |
| TIME (USA) - The All-Time 100 Songs (2011)
| No Order |
| Texas Monthly (USA) - The 100 Best Texas Songs (2004)
| 3 |
| Time-Life (USA) - Rock & Roll: The Stories Behind the Songs (2017)
| No Order |
| TimeOut New York (USA) - The Best Songs Ever (2016)
| 94 |
| VH1 (USA) - The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time (2000)
| 45 |
| 2FM (Ireland) - Top 100 Singles of All Time (2003)
| 79 |
| Charlie Gillett (UK) - Sound Of The City: Playlist 1946-1971 (1983)
| No Order |
| Dave Thompson (UK) - 1000 Songs that Rock Your World (2011)
| 151 |
| HarperCollins GEM (UK) - Single of the Year 1949-99 (1999)
| No Order |
| Mark Ellingham (USA) - The Rough Guide Book of Playlists: 5,000 Songs You Must Download (2007)
| No Order |
| Mojo (UK) - The 100 Greatest Singles of All Time (1997)
| 25 |
| Mojo (UK) - The 100 Records That Changed the World (2007)
| 52 |
| NME (UK) - The 100 Best Songs of the 1950s (2012)
| 36 |
| NME (UK) - The Top 100 Singles of All Time (1976)
| 62 |
| NME (UK) - The Top 150 Singles of All Time (1987)
| 62 |
| Q (UK) - 100 Songs That Changed the World (2003)
| 43 |
| Sean Egan (USA) - The Little Black Book of Music: Key Songs (2007)
| No Order |
| The Guardian (UK) - 1000 Songs Everyone Must Hear (2009)
| No Order |
| Zig Zag (UK) - Gillett & Frith's Hot 100 Singles (1975)
| No Order |
| Gary Pig Gold (Canada) - The 40 Most Influental Records of the 20th Century (1999)
| No Order |
| Berlin Media (Germany) - The 100 Best Singles of All Time (1998)
| 24 |
| Rolling Stone (Germany) - The 500 Best Songs of All Time (2004)
| 64 |
| Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany) - 1020 Songs 1955-2005 (2005)
| No Order |
| Gilles Verlant and Thomas Caussé (France) - 3000 Rock Classics (2009, update 2013)
| No Order |
| Rocks Musiczine (Spain) - The 100 Best Rock Songs in History (1995)
| 72 |
| STM Entertainment (Australia) - The 50 Best Songs Ever (2007)
| 42 |
| Record Collectors (Japan) - 100 Best US Songs 1954-1966 (2009)
| 6 |
| Ezio Guaitamacchi (Italy) - Mille canzoni che ci hanno cambiato la vita [1,000 Songs That Changed Our Lives] (2009)
| No Order |
| Jam (Italy) - 100 Songs to Understand Rock (2004)
| No Order |
| Giannis Petridis (Greece) - 2004 of the Best Songs of the Century (2003)
| No Order |