| 100% | CHEAPTRICK | 10 | Band with the 1979 hit "I Want You to Want Me": 2 wds. |
| 71% | THEBEATLES | 10 | Band with the 1963 hit "I Want to Hold Your Hand": 2 wds. |
| 69% | SIMPLEMINDS | 11 | Band with the 1985 hit "Don't You (Forget About Me)": 2 wds. |
| 66% | SIMPLEMINDS | 11 | Scottish New Wave band with the 1985 hit "Don't You (Forget About Me)": 2 wds. |
| 63% | THEDOORS | 8 | Band with the 1968 hit "Hello, I Love You": 2 wds. |
| 62% | BACKSTREETBOYS | 14 | Band with the 1999 hit "I Want It That Way": 2 wds. |
| 60% | THEPRETENDERS | 13 | Band with the 1994 hit "I'll Stand by You": 2 wds. |
| 60% | THECLASH | 8 | Band with the 1980 hit "Train in Vain (Stand by Me)": 2 wds. |
| 60% | SADEYES | 7 | 1979 #1 song with the lyric "Turn the other way / I don't want to see you cry" (2 wds.) |
| 58% | CHEAPTRICK | 10 | *Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band with the hits "The Flame" and "I Want You to Want Me" |
| 55% | THOMPSONTWINS | 13 | British New Wave band with the 1984 hit "Hold Me Now": 2 wds. |
| 55% | FOOFIGHTERS | 11 | Seattle grunge band with the 1999 rock hit "Learn to Fly": 2 wds. |
| 55% | IRIS | 4 | Goo Goo Dolls hit with the line "I just want you to know who I am" |
| 55% | LITTLEJEANNIE | 13 | 1980 Elton John song with the line "I want you to be my acrobat": 2 wds. |
| 55% | THEBEATLES | 10 | "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "She Loves You" group who in 1964 became the first ever to be simultaneously #1 and #2 with their first two hits: 2 wds. |
| 53% | NICKELBACK | 10 | Band with the 2001 #1 hit "How You Remind Me" … or a hint to entering 54-Across |
| 53% | TEARSFORFEARS | 13 | English band with the 1985 #1 hit "Everybody Wants to Rule the World": 3 wds. |
| 53% | THREEDOGNIGHT | 13 | Band with the 1970 #1 hit "Mama Told Me Not to Come": 3 wds. |
| 52% | THEWHO | 6 | English band with the 1967 hit "I Can See for Miles": 2 wds. |
| 52% | SELENAGOMEZ | 11 | "Lose You to Love Me" singer with the beauty brand Rare Beauty: 2 wds. |
| 51% | SHIRLEYMANSON | 13 | Scottish singer with the 2005 hit (with the band Garbage) "Bleed Like Me": 2 wds. |
| 51% | JOHNLEGEND | 10 | Ivy Leaguer (he went to Penn) with the 2014 #1 hit "All of Me": 2 wds. |
| 51% | NIGHTFEVER | 10 | 1978 #1 hit with the lyrics "Here I am, praying for this moment to last": 2 wds. |
| 50% | CHEAPTRICK | 10 | "I Want You to Want Me" band with an underhanded-sounding name |
| 50% | MYLIFE | 6 | Billy Joel song with the line "I don't want you to tell me it's time to come home" (2 wds.) |
| 50% | REGINABELLE | 11 | "Baby Come to Me" singer who collaborated with 44-Across on the R&B hits "Without You" and 34-Across (2 wds.) |
| 50% | ELO | 3 | Band with the 1979 hit "Don't Bring Me Down," for short |
| 50% | HEREWITHME | 10 | 2019 hit song by 17-Down featuring Chvrches with the lyrics "You're saying the words that I want you to say / There's a pain in my heart and it won't go away" (3 wds.) |
| 50% | PETERFRAMPTON | 13 | "I'm in You" singer with the hit single "Baby, I Love Your Way": 2 wds. |
| 49% | PATSYCLINE | 10 | Country singer with the 1961 crossover hit "I Fall to Pieces": 2 wds. |