| 100% | REM | 3 | Band whose first top-10 hit was "The One I Love" |
| 75% | REM | 3 | Band whose first hit single was "The One I Love" |
| 68% | REM | 3 | Band that had a 1987 top 10 hit with "The One I Love" |
| 65% | POISON | 6 | 1980s hair band whose first Top 20 hit was "Talk Dirty to Me" |
| 64% | MOTLEYCRUE | 10 | 1980s hair band whose first Top 20 hit was "Smokin' in the Boys Room" (2 wds.) |
| 61% | CELINEDION | 10 | Singer whose first top 10 hit was "Where Does My Heart Beat Now" |
| 57% | ABBA | 4 | Band whose first hit in the US was "Waterloo" |
| 57% | DEFLEPPARD | 10 | 1980s hair band whose first Top 20 hit was "Photograph" (2 wds.) |
| 57% | TOTO | 4 | Band whose first hit was 1978's "Hold the Line" |
| 56% | WINGER | 6 | 1980s hair band whose first Top 20 hit was "Headed for a Heartbreak" |
| 52% | YOUMIGHTTHINK | 13 | The Cars Top 10 hit whose video features 44-Across as a housefly (and was the first to win the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year) (3 wds.) |
| 52% | WALKRIGHTBACK | 13 | 1961 Top 10 hit for the Everly Brothers whose B-side is "Ebony Eyes" (3 wds.) |
| 51% | REM | 3 | Band with the 1987 hit "The One I Love" |
| 51% | TILIKISSEDYOU | 13 | 1959 Top 10 hit for the Everly Brothers whose B-side is "Oh, What a Feeling" (4 wds.) |
| 49% | ABBA | 4 | Band whose first US hit was "Waterloo" |
| 49% | DONTSTOP | 8 | 1977 top 10 hit for Fleetwood Mac, the band that accounts for one of Stevie Nicks's Hall of Fame inductions: 2 wds. |
| 49% | REM | 3 | Band whose final top 40 hit was "Bang and Blame" |
| 48% | ONEREPUBLIC | 11 | Pop band whose first hit was "Apologize" |
| 47% | DRIVE | 5 | The Cars Top 10 hit whose video was directed by actor Timothy Hutton and stars model Paulina Porizkova (who married 44-Across) |
| 47% | BRITNEYSPEARS | 13 | Musician whose first single "... Baby one more time" topped the charts in 1998 when she was just 17 years old: 2 wds. |
| 47% | REM | 3 | Band whose final top-40 hit was "Bang and Blame" |
| 47% | THEPOLICE | 9 | Band whose 1980 "Zenyatta Mondatta" album includes the Top 10 song "Don't Stand So Close to Me" (2 wds.) |
| 47% | ABBA | 4 | Swedish pop band whose first US hit was "Waterloo" |
| 47% | ERESTU | 6 | 1974 top 10 hit whose title means "You Are" |
| 47% | UPONCRPLECREEK | 14 | The Band's first Top 40 hit |
| 47% | LALA | 4 | "___ Means I Love You" (1968 top 10 hit by the Delfonics) |
| 47% | STILLINTOYOU | 12 | 2013 single that was Paramore's first Top 10 hit on the "Billboard" Mainstream Top 40 chart (3 wds.) |
| 47% | STANDBACK | 9 | 1983 top 10 hit for Stevie Nicks, the first woman to be inducted twice (in 1998 and 2019) into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: 2 wds. |
| 46% | ILLBEAROUND | 11 | 1972 Top 10 R&B hit by the Spinners that begins, "This is our fork in the road / Love's last episode" (3 wds.) |
| 46% | REM | 3 | "The One I Love" band |