| 100% | SADE | 4 | Group with the 2010 chart-topping album "Soldier of Love" |
| 61% | SADE | 4 | Grammy-winning singer with the 2010 album "Soldier of Love" |
| 56% | ONED | 4 | Group with the 2012 chart-topping album "Up All Night," to fans |
| 51% | REM | 3 | Group with the #1 album "Out of Time" |
| 50% | REM | 3 | Group with the No. 1 album "Out of Time" |
| 46% | ANGIE | 5 | Stone with the R&B album "The Art of Love & War" |
| 46% | LORETTA | 7 | Lynn with sixty-three albums that made Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart by the time of her death (October, 2022) |
| 44% | BEASTIEBOYS | 11 | Rap group with the classic 1986 album "Licensed to Ill" … or a description of 17-, 24-, 48- and 57-Across? |
| 43% | OLIVIARODRIGO | 13 | Singer with the chart-topping 2021 album “Sour” |
| 43% | OKGO | 4 | Illinois rock band with the Top 40 album "Of the Blue Colour of the Sky" (2 wds.) |
| 43% | PEARLJAM | 8 | Group with the #1 album "Vitalogy" |
| 42% | REM | 3 | Group with the monster 1994 album "Monster" |
| 42% | BTS | 3 | Group with the 2020 #1 album "Be" |
| 42% | MICHAEL | 7 | With 33-Across, pop singer whose posthumous album "This Is It" topped the charts in 2009 |
| 42% | ABBA | 4 | Group with the hit 1978 album "The Album" |
| 42% | MOTLEYCRUE | 10 | Group with the 6x platinum album "Dr. Feelgood" |
| 42% | AMISH | 5 | Group with the adolescent rite of passage rumspringa |
| 42% | VOYAGE | 6 | 1977 eponymous debut album by the French disco group that topped the US disco chart |
| 42% | RAYCHARLES | 10 | Soul singer whose posthumous album "Genius Loves Company" topped the charts in 2005: 2 wds. |
| 41% | ACDC | 4 | Group with the 22x platinum album "Back in Black" |
| 41% | BANANARAMA | 10 | Group with the 1984 top 10 hit "Cruel Summer" |
| 41% | GOGOS | 5 | Group with the 1981 #1 album "Beauty and the Beat" |
| 41% | MDS | 3 | Force ___ (R&B group with the 1986 hit "Tender Love") |
| 41% | REM | 3 | Rock group with the 1994 #1 album "Monster" |
| 41% | ELO | 3 | Group with the '79 double-platinum album "Discovery" |
| 41% | RASCAL | 6 | ___ Flatts (country group with the 2014 album "Rewind") |
| 41% | TLC | 3 | Girl group with the 1999 #1 album "FanMail" |
| 41% | ABBA | 4 | Swedish pop group with the 2021 album "Voyage" |
| 41% | RATT | 4 | Heavy metal band with the 2010 album "Infestation" |
| 41% | EDSHEERAN | 9 | English singer whose album "÷" and song "Shape of You" both topped the charts in 2017: 2 wds. |