| 100% | RAT | 3 | Animal Michael Jackson sings about in "Ben" |
| 43% | LARGO | 5 | Florida Key sung about in Kokomo |
| 42% | FANDANGO | 8 | Spanish dance sung about in Bohemian Rhapsody |
| 42% | JEAN | 4 | "Billie ___," 1983 song by Michael Jackson featuring the titular character, who is just the kind of girl they sing songs about |
| 41% | GARY | 4 | Indiana city sung about in "The Music Man" |
| 41% | DOGIE | 5 | Wandering calf often sung about in cowboy songs |
| 40% | LOVE | 4 | Emotion that's sung about in many pop songs |
| 40% | MOPED | 5 | Vehicle sung about in Macklemore & Ryan Lewis's "Downtown" |
| 40% | CORVETTE | 8 | Little red car that Prince sang about in 1982 |
| 40% | TAINTED | 7 | Kind of love Soft Cell sang about in 1981 |
| 40% | MINERAL | 7 | What Boston's Buffalo Tom sang about in 1992 |
| 40% | LOLLIPOP | 8 | Type of candy The Chordettes sang about in 1958 |
| 40% | VIRTUAL | 7 | Type of insanity Jamiroquai sung about in the 90s |
| 40% | JANET | 5 | Michael Jackson's sister who sang "Control" |
| 40% | FOLGERS | 7 | It's sung about in ''Happy Morning'' ads (c. 2006) |
| 40% | THEWIZ | 6 | Michael Jackson played the scarecrow in 1978 film |
| 40% | IMBAD | 5 | Michael Jackson boast, in a 1987 hit |
| 39% | BAD | 3 | Michael Jackson album that included "Man in the Mirror" |
| 39% | MIRROR | 6 | Michael Jackson is "starting with the man in" this |
| 39% | AFRO | 4 | Hairstyle for Michael Jackson in the 1970s |
| 38% | ROCKIN | 6 | __ Robin; huge hit for Michael Jackson in 1972 |
| 38% | IMBAD | 5 | Repeated Michael Jackson lyric in a 1987 hit |
| 38% | BLINDING | 8 | The Weeknd sang about these Lights in 2020 |
| 38% | PEPPER | 6 | The Beatles sang about this Sergeant in 1967 |
| 38% | VANGOGH | 7 | "The Starry Night" painter sung about in Don McLean's "Vincent" (2 wds.) |
| 38% | IMBAD | 5 | Michael Jackson boast, in a 1987 hit song (2 wds.) |
| 37% | SUBMARINE | 9 | The Beatles sang about living in a yellow one |
| 37% | XSCAPE | 6 | Posthumous Michael Jackson album, released in 2014 |
| 37% | BAD | 3 | Michael Jackson hit whose title is heard 88 times in the song |
| 37% | IMBAD | 5 | Repeated Michael Jackson lyric in a 1987 hit: 2 wds. |