| Blender (USA) - Standout Tracks from the 500 CDs You Must Own (2003)
| No Order |
| Bruce Pollock (USA) - The 7,500 Most Important Songs of 1944-2000 (2005)
| No Order |
| Complex (USA) - The 100 Best Bob Marley Songs (2012)
| 3 |
| Dave Marsh (USA) - The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made (1989)
| 475 |
| Grammy Hall of Fame Albums and Songs (USA)
| No Order |
| Life (USA) - 40 Years of Rock & Roll, 5 Songs for Each Year 1952-91 (Updated 1995)
| No Order |
| Michaelangelo Matos (USA) - Top 100 Singles of the 1970s (2001)
| 101 |
| Paul Williams (USA) - Rock and Roll: The 100 Best Singles of All Time (1993)
| No Order |
| Pause & Play (USA) - Songs Inducted into a Time Capsule, One Track at Each Week
| No Order |
| Pitchfork (USA) - The 200 Best Songs of the 1970s (and Recommended Listening) (2016)
| 201 |
| Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (USA) - 500 Songs That Shaped Rock (1995)
| No Order |
| Rolling Stone (USA) - The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (2004)
| 37 |
| Rolling Stone (USA) - The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (Updated 2010)
| 37 |
| Rolling Stone (USA) - The Top 50 Bob Marley Songs (2014)
| 2 |
| Steve Crawford (USA) - 1,000 Essential Songs from the 1970s (2015)
| 101 |
| Steve Sullivan (USA) - Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings Volumes 1-4 (2013, 2017)
| 301-400 |
| Treble (USA) - The Top 200 Songs of the 1970s (2012)
| 104 |
| VH1 (USA) - The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time (2000)
| 97 |
| 2FM (Ireland) - Top 100 Singles of All Time (2003)
| 88 |
| BBC Radio2 (UK) - Sold on Song, a Celebration of Great Songs and Songwriting
| No Order |
| Guardian (UK) - A history of modern music (2011)
| No Order |
| Mark Ellingham (USA) - The Rough Guide Book of Playlists: 5,000 Songs You Must Download (2007)
| No Order |
| NME (UK) - The 100 Best Songs of NME's Lifetime (2012)
| 86 |
| NME (UK) - The 100 Best Songs of the 1970s (2012)
| 97 |
| NME (UK) - The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (2014)
| 139 |
| NME (UK) - The Top 100 Singles of All Time (1976)
| 96 |
| NME (UK) - The Top 150 Singles of All Time (1987)
| 102 |
| Q (UK) - 100 Songs That Changed the World (2003)
| 42 |
| Q (UK) - The 1001 Best Songs Ever (2003)
| No Order |
| Q (UK) - The 1010 Songs You Must Own (2004)
| No Order |
| Sean O'Hagan, The Observer (UK) - Fifty Years of Pop (2004)
| No Order |
| The Guardian (UK) - 1000 Songs Everyone Must Hear (2009)
| No Order |
| Panorama (Norway) - The 30 Best Singles of the Year 1970-98 (1999)
| 10 |
| Rolling Stone (Germany) - The 500 Best Songs of All Time (2004)
| 34 |
| 1,001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die, and 10,001 You Must Download (2010 - French Edition)
| 1002 |
| Gilles Verlant and Thomas Caussïŋ― (France) - 3000 Rock Classics (2009, update 2013)
| No Order |
| Rolling Stone (France) - The 100 Best Singles of the Last 25 Years (1988)
| 24 |
| STM Entertainment (Australia) - The 50 Best Songs Ever (2007)
| 14 |
| Toby Creswell (Australia) - 1001 Songs (2005)
| No Order |
| Toby Creswell (Australia) - Rockwiz Decades: The Greatest Songs of Our Time (2015)
| No Order |
| Ezio Guaitamacchi (Italy) - Mille canzoni che ci hanno cambiato la vita [1,000 Songs That Changed Our Lives] (2009)
| No Order |
| Jam (Italy) - 100 Songs to Understand Rock (2004)
| No Order |
| Luca Sofri (Italy) - Playlist: 2978 canzoni di cui non potete fare a meno [2,978 Songs You Can't Live Without] (2008)
| No Order |
| Massimo Cotto (Italy) - We Will Rock You: 709 Canzoni [709 Songs] (2009)
| No Order |
| Mauro Ronconi (Italy) - The Best Song from the 200 Best Albums (1998)
| No Order |
| Mucchio Selvaggio (Italy) - 17 Critics and Their Top 50 Songs (2002)
| 99 |
| Giannis Petridis (Greece) - 2004 of the Best Songs of the Century (2003)
| No Order |
| Jamaican Poll - The Top 100 Jamaican Songs of 1957-2007 (2009)
| 12 |
| Kevin O'Brien Chang & Wayne Chen (Jamaica) - Top 100 Reggae Songs 1960-80 (1998)
| 32 |
| NME (UK) - Singles of the Year
| 1 |
| Record Mirror (UK) - Singles of the Year
| 8 |
