| 100% | COVERBAND | 9 | Group playing Top 40 hits, e.g. |
| 59% | COVERBAND | 9 | Group playing 1960s hits, e.g. |
| 50% | HIT | 3 | Top 40 song, e.g. |
| 50% | HIT | 3 | Top 40 single, e.g. |
| 46% | ABBA | 4 | Group whose last Top 40 hit was "When All Is Said and Done" |
| 45% | SCORESAHIT | 10 | Makes the Billboard Top 40, e.g. |
| 45% | LOSE | 4 | Hit the top in Tetris, e.g. |
| 43% | OTIS | 4 | Redding with 11 Top 40 hits |
| 43% | COLE | 4 | Natalie with 12 Top 40 hits |
| 43% | LABAMBA | 7 | 1959 Spanish-language Top 40 hit |
| 43% | BORNTORUN | 9 | Springsteen's first Top 40 hit |
| 43% | RAITT | 5 | Bonnie with five 1990s Top 40 hits |
| 43% | PIANOMAN | 8 | Billy Joel's first Top 40 hit |
| 43% | EATIT | 5 | First Top 40 hit for "Weird Al" |
| 43% | UPONCRPLECREEK | 14 | The Band's first Top 40 hit |
| 42% | SADE | 4 | Nigerian-born singer with five Top 40 hits |
| 42% | EATIT | 5 | First Top 40 hit for Weird Al Yankovic |
| 42% | BECK | 4 | Singer whose only top 40 hit was "Loser" |
| 42% | PERSDELIGHT | 11 | 1979 Top 40 hit for the Sugarhill Gang |
| 42% | AMIE | 4 | Pure Prairie League's first Top 40 hit |
| 42% | HITS | 4 | Top 40 station's play list |
| 41% | LINUSANDLUCY | 12 | Top 40 hit on the soundtrack for "A Charlie Brown Christmas" |
| 41% | LABAMBA | 7 | Top 40 hit whose first two words translate to "to dance" |
| 41% | RAITT | 5 | Bonnie with five Top 40 hits in the 1990s |
| 41% | RED | 3 | 2012 Taylor Swift album with six Top 40 hits |
| 41% | ITSMYLIFE | 9 | Top 40 hit from the 2000 Bon Jovi album "Crush" (3 wds.) |
| 40% | REM | 3 | Band whose final top 40 hit was "Bang and Blame" |
| 40% | ABOO | 4 | "Bug ___" (1999 Destiny's Child Top 40 hit) (2 wds.) |
| 40% | DIRESTRAITS | 11 | "Sultans of Swing" Top 40 group |
| 40% | IMA | 3 | Lead-in to "Man," "Woman" or "Fool" in Top 40 hits |