| 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) | 1-1001 |
| 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 |
| Pitchfork (USA) - The 200 Best Songs of the 1980s (2015) | 201 |
| Treble (USA) - The Top 200 Songs of the 80s (2011) | 79 |
| Woxy.com (USA) - Modern Rock 500 Songs of All Time (combined rank 1989-2009) | 1187 |
| Sean Egan (USA) - 500 Songs You Need to Hear (2006) | No Order |
| Wanadoo (UK) - The 20 Best Songs of the 80s | No Order |
| Panorama (Norway) - The 30 Best Singles of the Year 1970-98 (1999) | 1 |
| Toby Creswell (Australia) - 1001 Songs (2005) | No Order |
| Toby Creswell (Australia) - Rockwiz Decades: The Greatest Songs of Our Time (2015) | No Order |
