| Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc. | |
| 1,001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die, and 10,001 You Must Download (2015 Update) | 1002 |
| Ego Trip (USA) - Hip Hop's 40 Greatest Singles by Year 1980-98 (1999) | 3 |
| Michaelangelo Matos (USA) - Top 100 Singles of the 1980s (2001) | 101 |
| The Source (USA) - The 100 Best Rap Singles of All Time (1998) | No Order |
| XXL (USA) - 40 Years of Hip-Hop: Top 5 Singles by Year (2014) | No Order |
| Hervïŋ― Bourhis (France) - Le Petit Livre Rock: The Juke Box Singles 1950-2012 | No Order |
| End of Year Lists | |
| Village Voice (USA) - Singles of the Year | 21 |
