| Best of All-time Lists, Best of Decade Lists, etc. | |
| Blender (USA) - Top 500 Songs of the 80s-00s (2005) | 427 |
| Bruce Pollock (USA) - The 7,500 Most Important Songs of 1944-2000 (2005) | No Order |
| Entertainment Weekly (USA) - Janet Jackson's 50 Best Songs of All Time, Ranked (2016) | 4 |
| OUT (USA) - The 50 Gayest Songs of the 1990s (2011) | No Order |
| Soul Bounce (USA) - The Top 100 Soul/R&B Songs (2008) | 33 |
| VH1 (USA) - Janet Jackson's 50 Greatest Songs of All Time (2016) | 2 |
| Gary Mulholland (UK) - This Is Uncool: The 500 Best Singles Since Punk Rock (2002) | No Order |
| Giannis Petridis (Greece) - 2004 of the Best Songs of the Century (2003) | No Order |
| End of Year Lists | |
| Village Voice (USA) - Singles of the Year | 13 |
| Face (UK) - Singles of the Year | 47 |
| Pop (Sweden) - Singles of the Year | 5 |
