| 100% | MARVINGAYE | 10 | Motown artist with the 1973 hit "Let's Get It On": 2 wds. |
| 54% | MARYWELLS | 9 | Motown artist with the 1964 hit "My Guy": 2 wds. |
| 52% | DIANAROSS | 9 | Motown artist with the 1970 hit "Ain't No Mountain High Enough": 2 wds. |
| 46% | PRIVATEDANCER | 13 | 1984 Tina Turner album with the #1 hit "What's Love Got to Do With It": 2 wds. |
| 42% | COUNTRYROAD | 11 | 1971 song with the lyrics "take to the highway" that's on James Taylor's "Greatest Hits" album: 2 wds. |
| 41% | SNOOPDOGG | 9 | Rapper with the 2004 #1 hit "Drop It Like It's Hot" whose name contains an unexpected double letter: 2 wds. |
| 41% | ALLSTAR | 7 | Smash Mouth hit with the lyric "Get your game on, go play": 2 wds. |
| 41% | THEPRETENDERS | 13 | Band with the 1982 Top 10 hit "Back on the Chain Gang": 2 wds. |
| 40% | JACKSONBROWNE | 13 | "Running on Empty" singer with the hit single "Somebody's Baby": 2 wds. |
| 40% | BACKSTREETBOYS | 14 | Band with the 1999 hit "I Want It That Way": 2 wds. |
| 40% | MISSYELLIOTT | 12 | Female rapper with the 2002 hit "Work It": 2 wds. |
| 40% | CHARLIEBROWN | 12 | 1959 Coasters hit with the lyric "Why's everybody always pickin' on me?": 2 wds. |
| 40% | DIERKSBENTLEY | 13 | Country star with the 2016 hit single "Somewhere on a Beach": 2 wds. |
| 39% | BARRYWHITE | 10 | Singer with the 1974 hit "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe": 2 wds. |
| 39% | ENVOGUE | 7 | Girl group with the 1990s hits "Hold On" and "Free Your Mind": 2 wds. |
| 39% | TWISTEDSISTER | 13 | 1980s heavy metal band fronted by Dee Snider, with the hit "We're Not Gonna Take It": 2 wds. |
| 38% | ESCAPADE | 8 | Janet Jackson hit song with the lyric "Come on baby, let's get away" |
| 38% | AWHIM | 5 | "He got it on ___" (an impulse): 2 wds. |
| 38% | THETEMPTATIONS | 14 | Grammy-winning Motown group with the hit singles "Cloud Nine" and "My Girl": 2 wds. |
| 37% | MARVIN | 6 | Let's Get It On by __ Gaye |
| 37% | CHARLIEDAY | 10 | He plays a character with the same first name (and the last name Kelly) on "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia": 2 wds. |
| 37% | AHOLD | 5 | The Miracles hit song "You've Really Got ___ on Me" (2 wds.) |
| 37% | SATURDAYSUIT | 12 | Art Garfunkel song with the lyrics "All week long we've been looking at / Horizons and it's hard on the brain" (2 wds.) |
| 36% | ALFONSORIBEIRO | 14 | "Dancing With the Stars" host who played one of Ricky's friends on 19-Across: 2 wds. |
| 36% | NAIL | 4 | It gets hit on the head |
| 36% | BRAD | 4 | It gets hit on the head |
| 36% | NAIL | 4 | It gets hit on the head? |
| 36% | GEORGEMICHAEL | 13 | Elton John's collaborator on the 1991 hit single "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me": 2 wds. |
| 35% | BARRYMANILOW | 12 | "Piano man" with the hit song "Mandy": 2 wds. |
| 35% | DEREKHOUGH | 10 | "Dancing With the Stars" dancer who's a judge on "World of Dance": 2 wds. |