| Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc. | |
| Ego Trip (USA) - Hip Hop's 40 Greatest Singles by Year 1980-98 (1999) | 10 |
| Pitchfork (USA) - The 200 Best Songs of the 1980s (2015) | 201 |
| Spin (USA) - The 100 Greatest Singles of All Time (1989) | 64 |
| XXL (USA) - 40 Years of Hip-Hop: Top 5 Singles by Year (2014) | No Order |
| Vincent Piolet (France) - Birth of French Hip-Hop: Most Significant Songs of the 1980s (2015) | 33 |
| End of Year Lists | |
| NME (UK) - Singles of the Year | 13 |
