| 100% | ACDC | 4 | Band whose "Back in Black" is the second-best-selling album of all time |
| 63% | GUNSNROSES | 10 | Band whose "Appetite for Destruction" was the best-selling debut album of all time |
| 49% | BACKSTREETBOYS | 14 | Five-member band whose "Millennium" was the best-selling album of 1999 (2 wds.) |
| 47% | MADE | 4 | "___ in Heaven," one of Queen's best selling albums that was the band's final studio album |
| 47% | PINKFLOYD | 9 | Rock band whose "The Dark Side of the Moon" album was released in 1973 (2 wds.) |
| 45% | DANIELLESTEEL | 13 | Novelist who is the fourth best-selling fiction writer of all time |
| 44% | MICHAEL | 7 | ___ Jackson, American singer dubbed the "King of Pop" whose 1982 album "Thriller" is the best-selling album of all time |
| 43% | AVATAR | 6 | One of the best selling movies of all time |
| 43% | BREAKINGBAD | 11 | #3 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time (as of 2016) ... and a hint to what the black squares are doing in four rows of this puzzle |
| 42% | NEMO | 4 | Titular character in the best-selling DVD of all time |
| 41% | ABBA | 4 | Band whose song "Dancing Queen" is in the Grammy Hall of Fame |
| 41% | GTAV | 4 | The second-best-selling video game of all time, briefly |
| 41% | JAGGEDLITTLEPILL | 16 | 1995 alternative rock album by 59-Across that is one of the best-selling albums of all time |
| 40% | FIESTA | 6 | Biggest-selling Ford of all time in the UK |
| 40% | ABBA | 4 | Band whose song "I Still Have Faith in You" was Grammy-nominated for Record of the Year |
| 40% | ARCADEFIRE | 10 | Indie rock band whose "The Suburbs" was the Grammys' 2010 Album of the Year |
| 40% | BACKINBLACK | 11 | AC/DC album that's one of the 10 best-selling albums of all time |
| 39% | EEL | 3 | Long fish whose back is part of the race route, in Mario Kart 8’s Dolphin Shoals |
| 39% | THRILLER | 8 | Best-selling studio album of all time (33x platinum) |
| 39% | TIGERWOODS | 10 | American professional golfer who according to Forbes is the second highest-paid athlete of all time: Abbr. |
| 39% | PAUL | 4 | & 5D Former member of The Beatles whose debut solo album was released in 1970 |
| 39% | ADELE | 5 | Best-selling singer whose album titles are all Arabic numerals |
| 39% | METALLICA | 9 | Rock band whose cover version of "Stone Cold Crazy" won the second-ever Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance |
| 38% | TOURISTS | 8 | The —, rock band featuring Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart whose eponymous debut album was released in 1979 |
| 38% | LADYDI | 6 | She was on the cover of back-to-back issues of Time in September 1997 |
| 38% | LYTEASAROCK | 11 | Influential 1988 hip-hop album whose artist was seventeen at the time of its release |
| 38% | OTISREDDING | 11 | US singer-songwriter whose posthumous album The Dock of the Bay was released in 1968 |
| 38% | MINECRAFT | 9 | After Tetris, the second-best-selling video game of all time |
| 38% | NIRVANA | 7 | Rock band whose performance of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on SNL is considered one of the best on the show |
| 38% | KORN | 4 | American rock band from the '90s that released their second album "Life Is Peachy" in 1996 |