| 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 |
| 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) | 2 |
| Michaelangelo Matos (USA) - Top 100 Singles of the 1980s (2001) | 60 |
| Pitchfork (USA) - The 200 Best Songs of the 1980s (2015) | 48 |
| VH1 (USA) - Janet Jackson's 50 Greatest Songs of All Time (2016) | 4 |
| Gary Mulholland (UK) - This Is Uncool: The 500 Best Singles Since Punk Rock (2002) | No Order |
| End of Year Lists | |
| Face (UK) - Singles of the Year | 13 |
| Spex (Germany) - Singles of the Year | 17 |
