| 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 |
| Entertainment Weekly (USA) - Janet Jackson's 50 Best Songs of All Time, Ranked (2016) | 1 |
| Pitchfork (USA) - The 200 Best Songs of the 1980s (2015) | 201 |
| Slant (USA) - The 100 Best Singles of the 1980s (2012) | 65 |
| VH1 (USA) - Janet Jackson's 50 Greatest Songs of All Time (2016) | 1 |
| Giannis Petridis (Greece) - 2004 of the Best Songs of the Century (2003) | No Order |
