By the end of the 1980s, "Into the Groove" was honored by "Billboard" magazine as the "Dance Single of the Decade". In 2003, Madonna fans were asked to vote for their top-twenty Madonna singles of all-time by "Q" magazine; "Into the Groove" was allocated the number-three spot. In 2009, the song was ranked at ninety on "Blender" magazine's "The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born". "Billboard" ranked the song number three on a 2015 list of Madonna's top 15 best songs, calling it ""the" Madonna club track." In 2015 the song was voted by the British public as the nation's 19th favourite 1980s number one in a poll for ITV. Pitchfork Media named "Into the Groove" the 17th best song from the 1980s, while "Classic Pop" placed the song at number three among their Top 100 Singles of the 1980s.