| 100% | NADA | 4 | ___ Surf ("Popular" band) |
| 80% | OCEAN | 5 | Popular rock band |
| 76% | PHISH | 5 | Popular "jam band" |
| 70% | DEF | 3 | ___ Leppard, popular band in the 80s |
| 70% | ONE | 3 | Popular boy band, "___ Direction" |
| 68% | MOODRINGS | 9 | Bands popular in the '70s |
| 66% | ABBA | 4 | Popular Swedish band of the 1970s |
| 66% | THESTONES | 9 | Perennially popular tour band |
| 65% | UGGS | 4 | Popular boots that originated from surf culture |
| 64% | SCRUNCHIES | 10 | Bands popular in the eighties and nineties |
| 64% | LAS | 3 | ___ Ketchup, popular Spanish girl band |
| 64% | FLOYD | 5 | "Pink ___," popular English rock band |
| 63% | TURF | 4 | A popular restaurant dish, surf and __ |
| 61% | DURANDURAN | 10 | Popular British band named after the villain in "Barbarella" |
| 61% | ERA | 3 | Big Band ___ (when swing music was popular) |
| 61% | NASH | 4 | Crosby, Stills, ___ & Young, a popular rock band |
| 61% | AHA | 3 | Norwegian band popular in the 1980s (Hyph.) |
| 61% | TRAGICALLYHIP | 13 | Longtime popular Canadian rock band, with "the" |
| 59% | ERA | 3 | Big Band ___ (period when Benny Goodman was popular) |
| 59% | ABE | 3 | ___ Lyman & His California Orchestra, popular 1920s-'40s band |
| 59% | ERA | 3 | Swing ___ (time when big band music was popular) |
| 59% | STARR | 5 | Ringo ___, of the most popular '60s rock band |
| 59% | SCRUNCHIE | 9 | Hair band that VSCO girls made popular again |
| 58% | ABBA | 4 | Popular 70s band with hits like "Mamma Mia" and "Dancing Queen" |
| 58% | POLICE | 6 | Band whose final album, "Synchronicity," was their most popular, with "The" |
| 57% | AERO | 4 | Prefix with "smith" to mean a popular rock band |
| 57% | BTSARMY | 7 | Fan group of a massively popular K-pop band |
| 54% | MANIA | 5 | Suffix with "Beatle" to mean craze for a popular '60s band |
| 50% | NSYNC | 5 | Boy band that was popular at the same time as the Backstreet Boys |
| 50% | ONE | 3 | ___ Direction (popular boy band) |