Tears for Fears
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Release Year:
1985
Rankings:
All-Time
#858 /
1980s
#121 /
1985
#7
Genres:
New Wave
,
Pop Rock
Parent Genres:
Pop
,
Rock
Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc.
Boom 99.7 (USA) - The Top 499 Songs of All Time (2016)
315
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)
101
Pause & Play (USA) - Songs Inducted into a Time Capsule, One Track at Each Week
No Order
Pitchfork (USA) - The 200 Best Songs of the 1980s (2015)
82
Popdose (USA) - 100 (+21) Favorite Singles of the Last 50 Years (2008)
72
Rikky Rooksby (USA) - Inside 100 Classic Rock Tracks (2001)
No Order
Spectrum Culture (USA) - 100 Best Songs of the '80s (2017)
24
Steve Sullivan (USA) - Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings Volumes 1-4 (2013, 2017)
201-300
TimeOut Chicago (USA) - 50 Best '80s Songs (2015)
1
TimeOut New York (USA) - 50 Best '80s Songs (2015)
10
TimeOut New York (USA) - 50 Best '80s Songs (2016)
10
Treble (USA) - The Top 200 Songs of the 80s (2011)
49
Woxy.com (USA) - Modern Rock 500 Songs of All Time (combined rank 1989-2009)
230
Sean Egan (USA) - The Little Black Book of Music: Key Songs (2007)
No Order
TimeOut London (UK) - 50 Best '80s Songs (2015)
47
Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany) - 1020 Songs 1955-2005 (2005)
No Order
Toby Creswell (Australia) - 1001 Songs (2005)
No Order
Toby Creswell (Australia) - Rockwiz Decades: The Greatest Songs of Our Time (2015)
No Order
Luca Sofri (Italy) - Playlist: 2978 canzoni di cui non potete fare a meno [2,978 Songs You Can't Live Without] (2008)
No Order
Giannis Petridis (Greece) - 2004 of the Best Songs of the Century (2003)
No Order
End of Year Lists
Village Voice (USA) - Singles of the Year
25