| 100% | ABBA | 4 | Band whose new album "Voyage" is their first in 40 years |
| 58% | MARLEY | 6 | Reggae musician Damian whose new album "Stony Hill" is his first solo release in 12 years |
| 53% | TEARSFORFEARS | 13 | 19-Across and 31-Across band whose first album in 18 years, "The Tipping Point," will be released tomorrow (3 wds.) |
| 53% | YIPES | 5 | Milwaukee band whose first album (named after themselves) was in 1979 and their most recent album (named after themselves!) was in 2018 |
| 50% | REM | 3 | Alternative rock band whose first album was "Murmur" in 1983 |
| 47% | NAS | 3 | Rapper whose 2018 album was his first in six years |
| 45% | ABBA | 4 | Swedish pop group who released their first album in 40 years, "Voyage," in 2021 |
| 44% | GONE | 4 | "Ten Years ___" 1975 song by the rock band Led Zeppelin that was released in their album "Physical Graffiti" |
| 44% | POLICE | 6 | Band whose final album, "Synchronicity," was their most popular, with "The" |
| 44% | REM | 3 | Band whose first album was 1983's "Murmur" |
| 43% | ABBA | 4 | Band whose first hit in the US was "Waterloo" |
| 42% | REM | 3 | Georgia band whose first album was 1983's "Murmur" |
| 42% | ABBA | 4 | Their final album, Voyage, was released in 2021 |
| 42% | ACDC | 4 | Rock band whose first album was titled, appropriately, "High Voltage" |
| 41% | JUSTINBIEBER | 12 | Musician whose first album titled "My World 2.0" was declared triple platinum in 2010 when he was just 16 years old: 2 wds. |
| 41% | REM | 3 | Band whose debut album, "Murmur," was Rolling Stone's 1983 Album of the Year |
| 41% | ACDC | 4 | Band whose "Back in Black" is the second-best-selling album of all time |
| 40% | OKGO | 4 | Rock band whose name is two letters off from their 2005 album "Oh No" |
| 39% | ABBA | 4 | Band whose song "I Still Have Faith in You" was Grammy-nominated for Record of the Year |
| 39% | THEPRETENDERS | 13 | "Back on the Chain Gang" rock band whose first album debuted in January 1980 (2 wds.) |
| 39% | PINKFLOYD | 9 | Rock band whose "The Dark Side of the Moon" album was released in 1973 (2 wds.) |
| 39% | MOTLEYCRUE | 10 | 1980s hair band whose first Top 20 hit was "Smokin' in the Boys Room" (2 wds.) |
| 38% | ARCADEFIRE | 10 | Indie rock band whose "The Suburbs" was the Grammys' 2010 Album of the Year |
| 38% | SEALS | 5 | Animals whose habitat can be found in the first three letters of their name |
| 38% | PAGE | 4 | "Tomorrow is the first ___ in a book of 365" (common New Year's phrase) |
| 37% | BOSTON | 6 | First Night ___, a New Year's Eve artistic and cultural celebration, that was first held in 1975 |
| 37% | NAS | 3 | "___: Time Is Illmatic" (2014 documentary about a rapper whose first album turned 20 this year) |
| 37% | SIMPLYRED | 9 | “Holding Back the Years” band, whose first incarnation was the Frantic Elevators |
| 37% | ORA | 3 | Singer Rita whose new album is "Phoenix" |
| 37% | JOAN | 4 | & 7D New York-born folk singer-songwriter whose self-titled debut album was released in 1960 |