| 100% | GETDOWNTONIGHT | 14 | 1970s party song from KC and the Sunshine Band featured in "Forrest Gump" (3 wds.) |
| 50% | DISCOINFERNO | 12 | 1970s party song from the Trammps featured in "Saturday Night Fever" (2 wds.) |
| 45% | DANCINGQUEEN | 12 | 1970s party song from ABBA featured in "Mamma Mia!" (2 wds.) |
| 40% | SOGLAD | 6 | 1978 song by KC and the Sunshine Band |
| 37% | SHOES | 5 | "Boogie ___" (KC and the Sunshine Band song) |
| 36% | FIGHTFORYOU | 11 | H.E.R. song from "Judas and the Black Messiah" that won the Oscar for Best Original Song in 2021: 3 wds. |
| 34% | GETITTOGETHER | 13 | Song from Drake's 2017 playlist, "More Life", featuring Black Coffee and Jorja Smith: 3 wds. |
| 34% | UNDERPRESSURE | 13 | Hit song from the British rock band "Queen" that featured David Bowie: 2 wds. |
| 34% | THEWEIGHT | 9 | Song by The Band featured in the Monument Valley scene in 36-Across (2 wds.) |
| 33% | BOOTY | 5 | "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your ___" (1976 #1 hit for KC and the Sunshine Band) |
| 32% | SHAKESHAKESHAKE | 15 | Start of a KC and the Sunshine Band title, and 17-, 29-, and 46-Across |
| 32% | THEBEEGEES | 10 | Brothers Barry, Maurice, and Robin who had nine #1 songs in the 1970s (3 wds.) |
| 32% | GIRLONFIRE | 10 | Song from Alicia Keys' fifth studio album which was a commercial hit with over 4 million paid downloads in the U.S.: 3 wds. |
| 31% | TAKEON | 6 | "___ Me," a song by the popular '80s band A-Ha from their album "Hunting High and Low:" 2 wds. |
| 30% | INMYLIFE | 8 | Beatles song from the album "Rubber Soul": 3 wds. |
| 30% | FIGHTFORYOU | 11 | "Judas and the Black Messiah" song that won an Oscar for Best Original Song in 2021 (3 wds.) |
| 30% | ROCKANTHEM | 10 | Party ___, LMFAO's song featuring Lauren Bennett that's sixth in the Billboard magazine's Top 10 songs of All-Time (1958-2018): 2 wds. |
| 30% | TWOOFUS | 7 | Song from 47-Across with the lyrics "You and me Sunday driving, not arriving / On our way back home" (3 wds.) |
| 29% | BAND | 4 | KC and the Sunshine ___ |
| 29% | LETITGO | 7 | Song from "Frozen", which won a Grammy and an Academy Award: 3 wds. |
| 29% | VILLAGEPEOPLE | 13 | Disco band with the hit songs "In the Navy" and "Y.M.C.A." (2 wds.) |
| 29% | GALWAYGIRL | 10 | 51-Across and Beoga song that begins, "She played the fiddle in an Irish band / But she fell in love with an English man" (2 wds.) |
| 29% | THEWAYITIS | 10 | 1986 Bruce Hornsby and the Range song sampled in Tupac Shakur's "Changes": 4 wds. |
| 29% | VANGOGH | 7 | Painter featured in the "Doctor Who" episode "Vincent and the Doctor" (2 wds.) |
| 29% | IHAVENOTHING | 12 | Oscar-nominated Whitney Houston song from the soundtrack of 14-Across: 3 wds. |
| 29% | SEVENWONDERS | 12 | "Odd" song from Fleetwood Mac's "Tango in the Night" album (2 wds.) |
| 29% | DUELINGBANJOS | 13 | Instrumental song from the movie "Deliverance" that hit #2 in 1973: 2 wds. |
| 28% | LEARNINGTOFLY | 13 | 1991 song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from the album "Into the Great Wide Open": 3 wds. |
| 28% | SHAKEITOFF | 10 | Song from Taylor Swift's "1989" whose video includes twerking, ballet, and break dancing: 3 wds. |
| 28% | ITSOK | 5 | "___", song by Tom Rosenthal, featured in the trailers of "Comet" and "Anesthesia" : 2 wds. |