| 1,001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die, and 10,001 You Must Download (2015 Update)
| 1-1001 |
| Blender (USA) - The Greatest Songs Ever, One Song Added Every Other Month
| No Order |
| Blender (USA) - Top 500 Songs of the 80s-00s (2005)
| 363 |
| Boom 99.7 (USA) - The Top 499 Songs of All Time (2016)
| 67 |
| Brad Carl (USA) - 50 Songs from the '70s and '80s That Still Hold Up (2015)
| No Order |
| Lori Majewski and Jonathan Bernstein (USA) - Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s (2014)
| No Order |
| Michaelangelo Matos (USA) - Top 100 Singles of the 1980s (2001)
| 101 |
| NBC-10 (USA) - The 30 Best Songs of the 80s (2006)
| No Order |
| Pause & Play (USA) - Songs Inducted into a Time Capsule, One Track at Each Week
| No Order |
| Pitchfork (USA) - The Pitchfork 500 (2008)
| No Order |
| Rolling Stone & MTV (USA) - The 100 Greatest Pop Songs Since the Beatles (2000)
| 100 |
| Slant (USA) - The 100 Best Singles of the 1980s (2012)
| 44 |
| Spectrum Culture (USA) - 100 Best Songs of the '80s (2017)
| 26 |
| TimeOut (USA) - 1000 Songs to Change Your Life (2008)
| No Order |
| TimeOut Chicago (USA) - 50 Best '80s Songs (2015)
| 50 |
| TimeOut New York (USA) - 50 Best '80s Songs (2015)
| 41 |
| TimeOut New York (USA) - 50 Best '80s Songs (2016)
| 41 |
| Treble (USA) - The Top 200 Songs of the 80s (2011)
| 55 |
| VH1 (USA) - Nominations for the 100 Greatest 80s Songs (2006)
| No Order |
| VH1 (USA) - The 100 Greatest Songs from the Past 25 Years (2003)
| 82 |
| Woxy.com (USA) - Modern Rock 500 Songs of All Time (combined rank 1989-2009)
| 260 |
| Artrocker (UK) - The 100 Greatest Art Rock Tracks (2010)
| 26 |
| Gary Mulholland (UK) - This Is Uncool: The 500 Best Singles Since Punk Rock (2002)
| No Order |
| Guardian (UK) - A history of modern music (2011)
| No Order |
| Mark Ellingham (USA) - The Rough Guide Book of Playlists: 5,000 Songs You Must Download (2007)
| No Order |
| NME (UK) - The 100 Best Songs of NME's Lifetime (2012)
| 49 |
| NME (UK) - The 100 Best Songs of the 1980s (2012)
| 84 |
| NME (UK) - The Top 100 Singles of All Time (2002)
| 69 |
| Q (UK) - 50 Years of Great British Music, 10 Tracks per Decade (2008)
| No Order |
| Q (UK) - The 1001 Best Songs Ever (2003)
| No Order |
| Q (UK) - The 1010 Songs You Must Own (2004)
| No Order |
| Q (UK) - The 80 Best Records of the 80s (2006)
| 16 |
| Q (UK) - The Ultimate Music Collection (2005)
| No Order |
| TimeOut London (UK) - 50 Best '80s Songs (2015)
| 14 |
| Wanadoo (UK) - The 20 Best Songs of the 80s
| No Order |
| Panorama (Norway) - The 30 Best Singles of the Year 1970-98 (1999)
| 1 |
| 3FM (The Netherlands) - 3 voor 12: 312 Essentials (2013)
| No Order |
| Theater van het Sentiment, Radio 2 (NL) - Top 40 Songs by Year 1969-2000 (2013)
| 27 |
| Berlin Media (Germany) - The 100 Best Singles of All Time (1998)
| 91 |
| Musikexpress (Germany) - The 700 Best Songs of All Time (2014)
| 321 |
| Rolling Stone (Germany) - The 50 Best Songs of the 1980s (2010)
| No Order |
| Gilles Verlant and Thomas Caussé (France) - 3000 Rock Classics (2009, update 2013)
| No Order |
| Jocelyn Manchek (France) - Pop Rock Playlist: 2000 titres pour votre lecteur mp3 [2,000 Songs for Your MP3 Player] (2008)
| No Order |
| Les Inrockuptibles (France) - 1000 Indispensable Songs (2006)
| No Order |
| El Pais (Spain) - 100 Musicians Choose 100 Songs That Changed Their Lives (2009)
| 92 |
| Rock de Lux (Spain) - The Top 150 Songs from the 20th Century (1998)
| 147 |
| Toby Creswell (Australia) - 1001 Songs (2005)
| No Order |
| Toby Creswell (Australia) - Rockwiz Decades: The Greatest Songs of Our Time (2015)
| No Order |
| Ezio Guaitamacchi (Italy) - Mille canzoni che ci hanno cambiato la vita [1,000 Songs That Changed Our Lives] (2009)
| 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 |
| Massimo Cotto (Italy) - We Will Rock You: 709 Canzoni [709 Songs] (2009)
| No Order |
| Mucchio Selvaggio (Italy) - 17 Critics and Their Top 50 Songs (2002)
| 99 |
| Giannis Petridis (Greece) - 2004 of the Best Songs of the Century (2003)
| No Order |
| Village Voice (USA) - Singles of the Year
| 7 |
| Face (UK) - Singles of the Year
| No Order |
| NME (UK) - Singles of the Year
| 12 |
| Sounds (UK) - Singles of the Year
| 2 |