"Sweet Child o' Mine" placed number 37 on "Guitar World"'s list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Solos." It also came in at number 3 on "Blender"'s 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born, and at number 198 on "Rolling Stone"'s The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In March 2005, "Q" magazine placed it at number 6 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. On a 2004 "Total Guitar" magazine poll, the introduction's famous riff was voted number 1 riff of all-time by the readers of the magazine. It was also in "Rolling Stone"'s 40 Greatest Songs that Changed the World. It places number 7 in VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of the '80s", and placed number 210 on the RIAA Songs of the Century list.