| 1,001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die, and 10,001 You Must Download (2015 Update)
| 1-1001 |
| Blender (USA) - Standout Tracks from the 500 CDs You Must Own (2003)
| No Order |
| Blues and Soul (UK) - 40 Essential Soul Singles (2007)
| 1 |
| Bruce Pollock (USA) - The 7,500 Most Important Songs of 1944-2000 (2005)
| No Order |
| Dave Marsh & Kevin Stein (USA) - The 40 Best of the Top 40 Singles by Year (1981)
| 3 |
| Dave Marsh (USA) - The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made (1989)
| 1 |
| 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 |
| Metro Times (USA) - The 100 Greatest Detroit Songs of All Time (and Runners-Up) (2007)
| 81 |
| Nathan Brackett (USA) - Legendary Rock Songs (2011)
| No Order |
| Paste Magazine (USA) - The 100 Best Songs of the 1960s (2016)
| 12 |
| Paul Williams (USA) - Rock and Roll: The 100 Best Singles of All Time (1993)
| No Order |
| Pitchfork (USA) - Top 200 Songs of the 60s (2006)
| 22 |
| Popdose (USA) - 100 (+21) Favorite Singles of the Last 50 Years (2008)
| 74 |
| RIAA and NEA (USA) - 365 Songs of the Century (2001)
| 21 |
| Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (USA) - 500 Songs That Shaped Rock (1995)
| No Order |
| Rolling Stone (USA) - The 100 Best Singles of the Last 25 Years (1988)
| 4 |
| Rolling Stone (USA) - The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (2004)
| 80 |
| Rolling Stone (USA) - The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (Updated 2010)
| 81 |
| Steve Sullivan (USA) - Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings Volumes 1-4 (2013, 2017)
| 1-20 |
| TIME (USA) - The All-Time 100 Songs (2011)
| No Order |
| TimeOut (USA) - 1000 Songs to Change Your Life (2008)
| No Order |
| Tom Moon (USA) - 1000 Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die: Songs (2008)
| No Order |
| VH1 (USA) - The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time (2000)
| 38 |
| 2FM (Ireland) - Top 100 Singles of All Time (2003)
| 64 |
| BBC (UK) - Pop on Trial, Top 50 Songs from the 1960s (2008)
| No Order |
| Charlie Gillett (UK) - Sound Of The City: Playlist 1946-1971 (1983)
| No Order |
| Elspeth Beidas (UK) - 10,000 Things You Need to Know: The Big Book of Lists [100 Songs] (2016)
| No Order |
| Freaky Trigger (UK) - Top 100 Songs of All Time (2005)
| 56 |
| HarperCollins GEM (UK) - Single of the Year 1949-99 (1999)
| No Order |
| Mojo (UK) - The 100 Greatest Singles of All Time (1997)
| 5 |
| Mojo (UK) - The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time (2000)
| 21 |
| NME (UK) - The 100 Best Songs of NME's Lifetime (2012)
| 27 |
| NME (UK) - The 100 Best Songs of the 1960s (2012)
| 10 |
| NME (UK) - The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (2014)
| 46 |
| NME (UK) - The Top 100 Singles of All Time (1976)
| 6 |
| NME (UK) - The Top 100 Singles of All Time (2002)
| 51 |
| NME (UK) - The Top 150 Singles of All Time (1987)
| 21 |
| Neil McCormick, The Telegraph (UK) - The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time (2009)
| 22 |
| Neil McCormick, The Telegraph (UK) - The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time (2015)
| 22 |
| Q (UK) - The 1001 Best Songs Ever (2003)
| No Order |
| Q (UK) - The 1010 Songs You Must Own (2004)
| No Order |
| Q (UK) - The Ultimate Music Collection (2005)
| No Order |
| Sean Egan (USA) - 500 Songs You Need to Hear (2006)
| No Order |
| Sean Egan (USA) - The Little Black Book of Music: Key Songs (2007)
| No Order |
| Sounds (UK) - The 100 Best Singles of All Time (1986)
| 4 |
| The Guardian (UK) - 1000 Songs Everyone Must Hear (2009)
| No Order |
| Zig Zag (UK) - Gillett & Frith's Hot 100 Singles (1975)
| No Order |
| Nerikes Allehanda (Sweden) - The 50 Best Rock Songs of All Time (1992)
| 27 |
| Martijn Stoffer and Roel Bentz van de Berg (The Netherlands) - Atoomjukebox (2009)
| No Order |
| Berlin Media (Germany) - The 100 Best Singles of All Time (1998)
| 2 |
| Hartbeat! (Germany) - Top 100 Singles by 15 Critics (1997)
| 32 |
| Musikexpress (Germany) - The 700 Best Songs of All Time (2014)
| 212 |
| Rolling Stone (Germany) - The 50 Best Songs of the 1960s (2010)
| No Order |
| Rolling Stone (Germany) - The 500 Best Songs of All Time (2004)
| 65 |
| Rolling Stone (Germany) - The Best Singles of 5 Decades (1997)
| No Order |
| Zounds (Germany) - The Top 30 Songs of All Time + Top 10 by Decade (1992)
| 10 |
| Gilles Verlant and Thomas Caussïŋ― (France) - 3000 Rock Classics (2009, update 2013)
| No Order |
| Hervïŋ― Bourhis (France) - Le Petit Livre Rock: The Juke Box Singles 1950-2012
| No Order |
| Carlo Herrera and Jose Luis Salas (Spain) - Alimenta Tus Oidos: 70 Playlists (2015)
| No Order |
| Rocks Musiczine (Spain) - The 100 Best Rock Songs in History (1995)
| 62 |
| Marty Willson-Piper, InDeepMusicArchive.net (Australia) - Song of the Day Selections (approx. 1983-present)
| No Order |
| Peter Holmes, The Sun-Herald (Australia) - 100 Best Songs of All Time (2003)
| 2 |
| 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 |
| Luca Sofri (Italy) - Playlist: 2978 canzoni di cui non potete fare a meno [2,978 Songs You Can't Live Without] (2008)
| No Order |
| Mucchio Selvaggio (Italy) - 17 Critics and Their Top 50 Songs (2002)
| 12 |
| Giannis Petridis (Greece) - 2004 of the Best Songs of the Century (2003)
| No Order |
