| 1,001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die, and 10,001 You Must Download (2015 Update)
| 1-1001 |
| Blender (USA) - Standout Tracks from the 500 CDs You Must Own (2003)
| No Order |
| Blender (USA) - The Greatest Songs Ever, One Song Added Every Other Month
| No Order |
| Blender (USA) - Top 500 Songs of the 80s-00s (2005)
| 65 |
| Bruce Pollock (USA) - The 7,500 Most Important Songs of 1944-2000 (2005)
| No Order |
| Dave Marsh (USA) - Postscript (102 Songs) to The Heart of Rock & Soul (1998)
| No Order |
| Guitar World (USA) - 100 Greatest Metallica Songs (2013)
| 20 |
| Life (USA) - 40 Years of Rock & Roll, 5 Songs for Each Year 1952-91 (Updated 1995)
| No Order |
| Michaelangelo Matos (USA) - Top 100 Singles of the 1990s (2001)
| 101 |
| Nathan Brackett (USA) - Legendary Rock Songs (2011)
| No Order |
| Pause & Play (USA) - Songs Inducted into a Time Capsule, One Track at Each Week
| No Order |
| Pitchfork (USA) - Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s (2010)
| 201 |
| Rikky Rooksby (USA) - Inside 100 Classic Rock Tracks (2001)
| 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)
| 399 |
| Rolling Stone (USA) - The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (Updated 2010)
| 408 |
| Spin (USA) - Every Metallica Song Ranked (2015)
| 8 |
| Steve Sullivan (USA) - Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings Volumes 1-4 (2013, 2017)
| 1001-2750 |
| The Boston Phoenix (USA) - The 90 Best Songs of the 90s (1999)
| No Order |
| Ultimate Classic Rock (USA) - Top 100 Classic Rock Songs (2013)
| 31 |
| VH1 (USA) - The 100 Greatest Songs from the Past 25 Years (2003)
| 88 |
| WZLX (USA) - 1,007 Greatest Songs of All Time (2015)
| 903 |
| Elspeth Beidas (UK) - 10,000 Things You Need to Know: The Big Book of Lists [100 Songs] (2016)
| No Order |
| Kerrang (UK) - 666 Songs You Must Own: The Ultimate Playlist (2004)
| 21 |
| Kerrang! (UK) - 100 Greatest Singles of All Time (2002)
| 4 |
| 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 the 1990s (2012)
| 88 |
| NME (UK) - The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (2014)
| 362 |
| Q (UK) - 100 Songs That Changed the World (2003)
| 81 |
| Q (UK) - The 1001 Best Songs Ever (2003)
| No Order |
| Q (UK) - The 1010 Songs You Must Own (2004)
| No Order |
| Q (UK) - The Ultimate Music Collection (2005)
| No Order |
| TimeOut London (UK) - 50 Best '90s Songs (2015)
| 27 |
| XFM (UK) - The Top 1000 Songs of All Time (2010)
| No Order |
| Nils Hansson, Dagens Nyheter (Sweden) - The 48 Best Rock Songs (1998)
| 32 |
| 3FM (The Netherlands) - 3 voor 12: 312 Essentials (2013)
| No Order |
| Laut (Germany) - Rank & Destroy: All 147 Metallica Songs Ranked (2016)
| 17 |
| Rolling Stone (Germany) - The 500 Best Songs of All Time (2004)
| 447 |
| Gilles Verlant and Thomas Caussïŋ― (France) - 3000 Rock Classics (2009, update 2013)
| No Order |
| Hervïŋ― Bourhis (France) - Le Petit Livre Rock: The Juke Box Singles 1950-2012
| 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 Necessary Songs (2015)
| 101-1000 |
| Cameron Adams (Australia) -The Best Songs from the 100 Must Have Albums (2013)
| No Order |
| Radio Hauraki (New Zealand) - Top 300 Songs of the '90s (2017)
| 16 |
| Toby Creswell (Australia) - 1001 Songs (2005)
| No Order |
| Toby Creswell (Australia) - Rockwiz Decades: The Greatest Songs of Our Time (2015)
| No Order |
| Giannis Petridis (Greece) - 2004 of the Best Songs of the Century (2003)
| No Order |
| Village Voice (USA) - Singles of the Year
| 5 |
| Melody Maker (UK) - Singles of the Year
| 10 |
| Eye Weekly Canadian Critics Poll - Singles of the Year
| 3 |
| Rumba (Finland) - Tracks of the Year
| 3 |
| Spex (Germany) - Singles of the Year
| 31 |
| Rock de Lux (Spain) - Songs of the Year
| 50 |
