In a poll conducted by Decima Research in 2006, "Summer of '69" was voted the best driving song among Canadians who sing in their cars.
In a poll, by Canadian magazine Chart, "Summer of '69" was voted the fourth best song of all-time in 2000; four years earlier it had been voted the twenty-fourth best song of all-time.
It was voted the fourth best-song ever on Radio 2, a Belgian radio station, in 2008.
In 1985 the song won the BMI (Broadcast Music Inc.) Citation of Achievement for US radio airplay.
In 2010, the song was voted the "hottest summer song" in Germany.