| 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) | 29 |
| Swellsville, Chuck Eddy (USA) - The 100 Best Singles of the 80s (1990) | 98 |
| End of Year Lists | |
| Face (UK) - Singles of the Year | 14 |
| NME (UK) - Singles of the Year | 32 |
| Record Mirror (UK) - Singles of the Year | 15 |
| Spex (Germany) - Singles of the Year | 50 |
