| 100% | REGGAE | 6 | Jamaican music genre, evolved in the late 1960s |
| 53% | JAZZFUSION | 10 | Genre embraced by Miles Davis in the late 1960s |
| 49% | DOOWOP | 6 | Music genre popular in the 1950s |
| 49% | RAP | 3 | Music genre featured in the musical "Hamilton" |
| 48% | DISCO | 5 | Music genre that was most popular in the late 1970s |
| 46% | EMO | 3 | Music genre that originated in the eighties |
| 46% | SKA | 3 | Jamaican music genre that influenced No Doubt and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones |
| 45% | BACHATA | 7 | Romantic music genre originating in the Dominican Republic |
| 45% | THEWONDERYEARS | 14 | Coming-of-age TV series set in the late 1960s and early 1970s (3 wds.) |
| 45% | EMO | 3 | Music genre that took off in the early 2000s |
| 45% | RAP | 3 | Music genre first honored at the Grammys in 1989 |
| 45% | HIPHOP | 6 | Music genre in the documentary "My Mic Sounds Nice" |
| 44% | SKA | 3 | Music genre of the Jamaican group Toots and the Maytals |
| 44% | EMO | 3 | Music genre that faded in popularity in the early 2010s |
| 44% | GRUNGE | 6 | Alternative rock genre started in the late 1980s |
| 44% | RAP | 3 | Music genre added to the Grammys in 1989 |
| 44% | BOSSANOVA | 9 | Brazilian music made popular in the late 1950s |
| 44% | RAP | 3 | Music genre featured in last month's Super Bowl halftime show |
| 43% | EMO | 3 | Rock music genre that originated in the mid-1980s |
| 43% | SOCA | 4 | Caribbean music genre pioneered by Lord Shorty in the 1970s |
| 42% | COUNTRY | 7 | Music genre for Carrie Underwood, which originated in Bristol, Tennessee, in the 1920s |
| 42% | SKA | 3 | Caribbean music genre of "Mirror in the Bathroom" band The English Beat |
| 41% | ONCD | 4 | Like much music, starting in the late 1980s |
| 41% | DISCO | 5 | Music that was popular in the late 1970s |
| 41% | SKA | 3 | Music genre that "Sir Coxsone" Dodd was instrumental in launching in the '50s and '60s |
| 41% | NEWWAVE | 7 | Pop-rock musical genre created in the late 1970s |
| 40% | TECHNO | 6 | Electronic dance music genre for Kraftwerk, which originated in Germany in the early 1980s |
| 40% | SKA | 3 | Jamaican music genre |
| 40% | REGGAE | 6 | Jamaican music genre |
| 40% | CHIC | 4 | In the latest style |