| 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 |
| Blender (USA) - The 1001 Greatest Songs to Download Right Now! (2003) | No Order |
| Blender (USA) - Top 500 Songs of the 80s-00s (2005) | 308 |
| Boom 99.7 (USA) - The Top 499 Songs of All Time (2016) | 177 |
| 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 |
| Michaelangelo Matos (USA) - Top 100 Singles of the 1980s (2001) | 101 |
| Rolling Stone (USA) - The 100 Best Singles of 1984 (2014) | 26 |
| VH1 (USA) - Nominations for the 100 Greatest 80s Songs (2006) | No Order |
