| Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc. | |
| Ego Trip (USA) - Hip Hop's 40 Greatest Singles by Year 1980-98 (1999) | 12 |
| XXL (USA) - 40 Years of Hip-Hop: Top 5 Singles by Year (2014) | No Order |
| Gary Mulholland (UK) - This Is Uncool: The 500 Best Singles Since Punk Rock (2002) | No Order |
| Herv� Bourhis (France) - Le Petit Livre Rock: The Juke Box Singles 1950-2012 | No Order |
| Vincent Piolet (France) - Birth of French Hip-Hop: Most Significant Songs of the 1980s (2015) | 33 |
| End of Year Lists | |
| Face (UK) - Singles of the Year | 23 |
| Melody Maker (UK) - Singles of the Year | 18 |
| Record Mirror (UK) - Singles of the Year | 11 |
