| 1,001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die, and 10,001 You Must Download (2015 Update)
| 1002 |
| Beats Per Minute (USA) - The Top 100 Tracks of the 1980s (2011)
| 90 |
| Blender (USA) - Top 500 Songs of the 80s-00s (2005)
| 441 |
| Boom 99.7 (USA) - The Top 499 Songs of All Time (2016)
| 140 |
| Bruce Pollock (USA) - The 7,500 Most Important Songs of 1944-2000 (2005)
| 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 |
| 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 200 Best Songs of the 1980s (2015)
| 201 |
| Pitchfork (USA) - The Pitchfork 500 (2008)
| No Order |
| Slant (USA) - The 100 Best Singles of the 1980s (2012)
| 54 |
| Treble (USA) - The Top 200 Songs of the 80s (2011)
| 102 |
| Woxy.com (USA) - Modern Rock 500 Songs of All Time (combined rank 1989-2009)
| 164 |
| NME (UK) - The 100 Best Songs of the 1980s (2012)
| 76 |
| Panorama (Norway) - The 30 Best Singles of the Year 1970-98 (1999)
| 21 |
| 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)
| 13 |
| Gilles Verlant and Thomas Caussïŋ― (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 Necessary Songs (2015)
| 101-1000 |
| 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 |
| Rolling Stone (USA) - Singles of the Year
| 5 |
