| 100% | LOCO | 4 | "The ___-Motion" (1974 Grand Funk Railroad hit) |
| 57% | THELOCOMOTION | 13 | Grand Funk hit on Billboard's year-end Hot 100 for 1974: 2 wds. |
| 51% | THELOCOMOTION | 13 | #1 hit for Little Eva (1962) and Grand Funk Railroad (1974): 2 wds., hyph. |
| 45% | ERESTU | 6 | 1974 hit subtitled "Touch the Wind" |
| 43% | ABBA | 4 | Quartet with the 1974 hit "Waterloo" |
| 43% | ABBA | 4 | Band that had the 1974 hit "Waterloo" |
| 41% | ERESTU | 6 | 1974 Mocedades hit whose English version is titled "Touch the Wind" |
| 40% | TONYTONITONE | 12 | R&B funk trio with the 1990 hit "Feels Good" |
| 40% | PAPERLACE | 9 | Band with the 1974 #1 hit "The Night Chicago Died" |
| 40% | REDBONE | 7 | Band with the 1974 hit "Come and Get Your Love" |
| 40% | ISHOT | 5 | 1974 hit "___the Sheriff" |
| 39% | ISHOT | 5 | "___ the Sheriff" (1974 hit) |
| 39% | KIKIDEE | 7 | Singer of the 1974 hit "I've Got the Music in Me" |
| 39% | MCKUEN | 6 | Poet/lyricist who wrote the 1974 #1 hit "Seasons in the Sun" |
| 38% | JONIMITCHELL | 12 | Folk singer who sang the 1974 hit "Big Yellow Taxi": 2 wds. |
| 38% | ISHOT | 5 | "___ the Sheriff" (1974 #1 hit) |
| 38% | ABOMB | 5 | "You Dropped ___ on Me" (1982 funk hit by the Gap Band): 2 wds. |
| 38% | BEACHBABY | 9 | One "there on the sand," in a 1974 hit by The First Class |
| 36% | LOCO | 4 | "The ___-Motion" (song that was a hit for Little Eva, Grand Funk, and Kylie Minogue) |
| 36% | BARRYWHITE | 10 | Singer with the 1974 hit "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe": 2 wds. |
| 35% | COURTANDSPARK | 13 | 1974 studio album by 28-Across with the hit singles "Raised on Robbery" and "Help Me" (3 wds.) |
| 35% | GOING | 5 | ___ through the motions |
| 34% | THISKISS | 8 | Faith Hill hit song with the lyrics "It's centrifugal motion / It's perpetual bliss" (2 wds.) |
| 34% | HAVENT | 6 | "___ Got Time for the Pain" (1974 hit) |
| 34% | FILMDOM | 7 | The motion-picture industry, writ large |
| 34% | AYE | 3 | "I support the motion" |
| 34% | PRETENDS | 8 | Goes through the motions |
| 34% | CHARADE | 7 | Going through the motions? |
| 34% | FAKINGIT | 8 | Going through the motions |
| 34% | PHONEITIN | 9 | Go through the motions |