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The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time

Rolling Stone’s 2021 revamp of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time was rebuilt from the ground up ...

The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time

A fully ranked canon of 500 tracks published by NME in 2014, presented online in five parts and i...

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame – Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll

“Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll” is an unranked, influence-based exhibit list from the Rock & Ro...

1000 Songs Everyone Must Hear

In March 2009, the Guardian/Observer published “1000 Songs Everyone Must Hear,” an unranked, them...

17 Critics and Their Top 50 Songs

In 2002 Italian Rock Magazine "Il Mucchio Selvaggio" (The Wild Bunch) asked each critic of the ma...

100 Best Songs of the '80s

Spectrum Culture’s “100 Best Songs of the ’80s” is a staff-produced, ranked countdown published i...

The Pitchfork 500

The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present (Fireside/Simon & Sch...

100 (+21) Favorite Singles of the Last 50 Years

The intro explicitly says the list combines votes from Popdose staff plus four friends (Peter Lub...

The 100 Greatest Singles of All Time

SPIN’s “100 Greatest Singles of All Time” was published in the magazine’s April 1989 (Vol. 5 No. ...

The 100 Best Singles of All Time

Berlin Media (Germany) – The 100 Best Singles of All Time (1998) is a ranked Top 100 songs/single...

The 700 Best Songs of All Time

Musikexpress (Germany) compiled “The 700 Best Songs of All Time” for its 700th anniversary issue ...