| 100% | PIANOMAN | 8 | Billy Joel's first Top 40 hit |
| 68% | UPONCRPLECREEK | 14 | The Band's first Top 40 hit |
| 66% | BORNTORUN | 9 | Springsteen's first Top 40 hit |
| 64% | ROCKMEBA | 8 | B.B. King's first Top 40 hit |
| 64% | AMIE | 4 | Pure Prairie League's first Top 40 hit |
| 63% | PIANOMAN | 8 | Billy Joel's first hit single |
| 59% | EATIT | 5 | First Top 40 hit for "Weird Al" |
| 58% | EATIT | 5 | First Top 40 hit for Weird Al Yankovic |
| 53% | LABAMBA | 7 | Top 40 hit whose first two words translate to "to dance" |
| 52% | CHERRYCHERRY | 12 | Neil Diamond's first top-40 hit, with a repetitive title: 2 wds. |
| 47% | BEG | 3 | "Ain't 2 Proud 2 ___" (first Top 40 hit for TLC) |
| 47% | LONGEST | 7 | Billy Joel's doo-wap hit, "For the __ time" |
| 45% | BORDERLINE | 10 | Madonna's first top 10 hit |
| 44% | ABOO | 4 | "Bug ___" (1999 Destiny's Child Top 40 hit) (2 wds.) |
| 43% | PIANOMAN | 8 | Billy Joel hit |
| 43% | BIGSHOT | 7 | 1979 track by Billy Joel that was his second top-twenty hit from his album "52nd Street": 2 wds. |
| 43% | LABAMBA | 7 | 1959 Spanish-language Top 40 hit |
| 43% | IGOTO | 5 | Billy Joel hit "___ Extremes" |
| 43% | OTIS | 4 | Redding with 11 Top 40 hits |
| 43% | COLE | 4 | Natalie with 12 Top 40 hits |
| 42% | STILLINTOYOU | 12 | 2013 single that was Paramore's first Top 10 hit on the "Billboard" Mainstream Top 40 chart (3 wds.) |
| 42% | WHATYOUNEED | 11 | INXS's first top 10 hit, from 1986: 3 wds. |
| 42% | IGO | 3 | Billy Joel hit, "___ to Extremes" |
| 42% | EATIT | 5 | Weird Al's first Top-40 song |
| 42% | COVERBAND | 9 | Group playing Top 40 hits, e.g. |
| 42% | RAITT | 5 | Bonnie with five 1990s Top 40 hits |
| 41% | TRES | 4 | "___ Hombres," first Top 40 album by ZZ Top |
| 41% | BECK | 4 | Singer whose only top 40 hit was "Loser" |
| 41% | PERSDELIGHT | 11 | 1979 Top 40 hit for the Sugarhill Gang |
| 41% | UPTOWN | 6 | Billy Joel hit about class, __ Girl |