| 100% | DRE | 3 | Dr. who founded a record label, familiarly |
| 84% | DRE | 3 | Dr. who founded a record label |
| 65% | DRE | 3 | Dr. who co-founded a record label |
| 51% | NAS | 3 | Rapper who founded the record label Mass Appeal |
| 48% | ANI | 3 | DiFranco who founded the Buffalo-based Righteous Babe record label |
| 45% | DRE | 3 | Founder of the record label Aftermath Entertainment, familiarly |
| 44% | DRE | 3 | Dr. who co-founded Death Row Records |
| 43% | DEATH | 5 | ___ Row, record label co-founded by Dr. Dre |
| 42% | PENN | 4 | Friend who founded a state |
| 42% | UTNE | 4 | Eric who founded a reader |
| 42% | RCA | 3 | Initials on a record label |
| 42% | ASCAP | 5 | Abbr. on a record label |
| 42% | ROC | 3 | ___-A-Fella, record label founded by Jay-Z |
| 41% | PICKWICK | 8 | Dickens protagonist who founded a club |
| 41% | FORD | 4 | Henry who founded a car company |
| 41% | ELI | 3 | Lilly who founded a pharmaceutical company |
| 41% | PRADA | 5 | Mario who founded a fashion empire |
| 41% | DIOR | 4 | Christian who founded a fashion house |
| 41% | BARRON | 6 | Clarence who founded a financial weekly |
| 41% | DEMOCD | 6 | Submission to a record label, once |
| 41% | DEMOTAPE | 8 | Cassette submitted to a record label |
| 41% | WEST | 4 | Kanye Omari ___, American rapper who founded the record label, GOOD Music |
| 41% | OREL | 4 | Hershiser who pitched a record 59 consecutive scoreless innings (and whose first name is aptly found in "scoreless") |
| 41% | DRBOB | 5 | Physician who co-founded A.A., familiarly |
| 41% | AVIS | 4 | Warren who founded a rental car company |
| 41% | HARDEE | 6 | Wilber who founded a fast-food chain |
| 41% | VASSAR | 6 | Matthew who founded a college in 1861 |
| 41% | DEERE | 5 | John who founded a Fortune 500 company |
| 41% | BAUER | 5 | Eddie who founded a clothing store chain |
| 41% | SOLOMONGUGGENHEIM | 17 | Art collector who founded a Manhattan museum |