| 100% | DONTFEARTHEREAPER | 17 | Blue Öyster Cult song memorialized in the SNL sketch "More Cowbell" |
| 34% | MORECOWBELL | 11 | Classic line from the Blue Öyster Cult sketch on "S.N.L." |
| 34% | FEAR | 4 | "(Don't ___) The Reaper" (classic song by Blue Öyster Cult) |
| 33% | ASEA | 4 | Like Brandy's lover in the song, most of the time |
| 33% | REAPER | 6 | Feared in Blue Oyster Cult's ode to thanatophobia |
| 33% | AUTOTUNED | 9 | Like the vocals in many pop songs |
| 32% | CALLANDRESPONSE | 15 | Music technique in many gospel and blues songs |
| 32% | RAP | 3 | Genre of many of the songs in "Hamilton" |
| 32% | SKIES | 5 | Somewhere over the rainbow they're blue, in song |
| 31% | MANN | 4 | Singer Aimee who sang most of the songs in "Magnolia" |
| 31% | STRAIT | 6 | George who has the most #1 country songs in history |
| 31% | SERA | 4 | Word repeated after "Que" in the song from the film "The Man Who Knew Too Much" |
| 31% | BABY | 4 | Justin Bieber song whose video has the most dislikes in YouTube history |
| 30% | ERIC | 4 | Bloom of Blue Oyster Cult |
| 29% | FEAR | 4 | "(Don't ___) The Reaper," song by Blue Oyster Cult that a grim reaper might sing at Fright Night Karaoke |
| 29% | BABY | 4 | "___ Shark" (song featured in the most-viewed YouTube video ever) |
| 29% | PAEAN | 5 | Song sung in the ''Iliad'' |
| 29% | END | 3 | In the ___, Linkin Park song |
| 29% | BESTOFF | 7 | In the most favorable spot |
| 29% | NOELS | 5 | Songs sung in the snow |
| 28% | SATIN | 5 | “Nights in White ___” (song by the Moody Blues) |
| 28% | PENNYLANE | 9 | Liverpool street that inspired the place "beneath the blue suburban skies" in a Beatles song (2 wds.) |
| 28% | OLDIE | 5 | Song popular in the 1960s, say |
| 28% | SEND | 4 | "___ in the Clowns" (Sondheim song) |
| 28% | ADAY | 4 | "__ in the Life"; Beatles song |
| 28% | SEND | 4 | "__ in the Clowns"; '73 song |
| 28% | WORST | 5 | In the — way (very much) |
| 28% | SUE | 3 | Peggy, in the song |
| 28% | RUDOLPH | 7 | "The most famous reindeer of all," in a holiday song |
| 28% | PRETAPE | 7 | SNL sketch that's filmed in advance |