| 100% | RAITT | 5 | #50 on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Singers of All Time" and #89 on "100 Greatest Guitarists" |
| 58% | BADROMANCE | 10 | Lady Gaga hit included on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list |
| 52% | RESPECT | 7 | Aretha Franklin hit ranked #1 on a Rolling Stone magazine "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list |
| 48% | RAITT | 5 | Bonnie on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists" list |
| 46% | PATTISMITH | 10 | #47 on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Artists" |
| 43% | THEMESSAGE | 10 | 1982 track that topped Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time” list |
| 37% | WHATSGOINGON | 12 | Title song from the 1971 album that Rolling Stone named the greatest of all time |
| 33% | GRAF | 4 | King called her "the greatest women's tennis player of all time" |
| 32% | PRYOR | 5 | No. 1 on Comedy Central's list of all-time greatest stand-up comedians |
| 30% | YUGO | 4 | Car on many "worst cars of all time" lists |
| 28% | KATYPERRY | 9 | "Roar" singer whose 2015 Super Bowl halftime show was the second-most watched of all time, behind Rihanna's 2023 show: 2 wds. |
| 28% | BEST | 4 | Like the greatest of all time |
| 28% | DION | 4 | Bestselling Canadian singer of all time |
| 28% | AVILA | 5 | Spain's so-called "City of Saints and Stones" |
| 28% | UNI | 3 | Prefix with "verse" for all of space and time |
| 27% | TESS | 4 | One of Randall and Beth's daughters on "This Is Us" |
| 27% | IMAGINE | 7 | John Lennon song described in Rolling Stone as "an enduring hymn of solace and promise" |
| 26% | LUNARYEAR | 9 | Unit of time based on the moon's phases |
| 26% | REM | 3 | Band whose debut album, "Murmur," was Rolling Stone's 1983 Album of the Year |
| 26% | JOHNLEGEND | 10 | "All of Me" singer who's back, along with Gwen Stefani, as a veteran coach on "The Voice": 2 wds. |
| 26% | DARIUSRUCKER | 12 | Hootie and the Blowfish lead singer who's getting a Recording star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2024: 2 wds. |
| 25% | MYA | 3 | Lady Marmalade and It's All About Me singer |
| 25% | ALCOHOL | 7 | "The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems," per Homer Simpson |
| 25% | MOIRA | 5 | Mother of David and Alexis on Schitt's Creek |
| 25% | ENYA | 4 | Irish singer of Orinoco Flow and Only Time |
| 25% | NENA | 4 | Singer of "Wunder gescheh'n" and "99 Luftballons" |
| 25% | BOBDYLAN | 8 | Singer of Like a Rolling Stone, Tangled Up in Blue |
| 25% | LETSGOCRAZY | 11 | First track on Prince's "Purple Rain," and a hint to each set of circled letters |
| 25% | ARIOT | 5 | "There's ___ Goin' On" (Sly and the Family Stone record) |
| 25% | VANESSA | 7 | ___ Carlton, singer and pianist whose highest-charting song "A Thousand Miles" peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 |