| 100% | KINGSOFLEON | 11 | Music group with siblings as members with hit songs like "The Bucket" and "Use Somebody": 3 wds. |
| 70% | DIRESTRAITS | 11 | Music group with siblings as members with hit songs like "Sultans of Swing" and "Money for Nothing": 2 wds. |
| 68% | THECARPENTERS | 13 | Music group with siblings as members with hit songs like "(They Long to Be) Close to You" and "We've Only Just Begun": 2 wds. |
| 38% | BLACKPINK | 9 | Korean girl group with the hit songs "How You Like That," 17-Across, and 27-Across |
| 36% | MISSME | 6 | Drake and Lil Wayne hit song with the lyrics "I know things have changed, know I used to be around more" (2 wds.) |
| 36% | ZACBROWNBAND | 12 | American country music band with the hit song "Colder Weather", that won the 2010 Grammy for Best New Artist: 3 wds. |
| 36% | LITTLEBIGTOWN | 13 | Country band with the hit songs "Girl Crush" and "Better Man" (3 wds.) |
| 36% | WHO | 3 | The ___, an English band with hit songs like "My Generation" and "I Can See For Miles" |
| 36% | BAYCITYROLLERS | 14 | Pop rock band with the hit songs "Money Honey" and "Saturday Night" (3 wds.) |
| 35% | THEFOURTOPS | 11 | Group with the 1973 song "Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)": 3 wds. |
| 35% | IAMSAM | 6 | 2001 drama which uses The Beatles' music and which has several characters whose names come from the band's songs: 3 wds. |
| 35% | CLEAN | 5 | ___ Bandit, electronic music group with the hit song "Rockabye" |
| 35% | BIGYELLOWTAXI | 13 | 12-Down hit song with the lyric "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot" (3 wds.) |
| 35% | BEENLIKETHIS | 12 | 30-Across and T-Pain hit song with the lyric "That type of boom-boom, that bass" (3 wds.) |
| 34% | MOVEONUP | 8 | Curtis Mayfield hit song that was used on the "Bend It Like Beckham" soundtrack (3 wds.) |
| 34% | SAMMYDAVISJR | 12 | Dancer famous as the youngest member of the "Will Mastin Trio" and whose cover of "The Candy Man" became a number-one hit: 3 wds. |
| 34% | OFEVERYTHING | 12 | "The Best ___," 2019 album with the greatest hits by Tom Petty both as a solo artist and a band member: 2 wds. |
| 34% | ROCKBANDS | 9 | Music groups like the Who and Led Zeppelin: 2 wds. |
| 34% | BLACKSABBATH | 12 | Metal band led by Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi, with hit songs like "Paranoid" and "Iron Man": 2 wds. |
| 34% | VILLAGEPEOPLE | 13 | Disco band with the hit songs "In the Navy" and "Y.M.C.A." (2 wds.) |
| 33% | SATISFYMYSOUL | 13 | Bob Marley and the Wailers song on "Kaya" whose title ends with a music genre (3 wds.) |
| 33% | BLACKHOLESUN | 12 | #1 hit song for 29-Across with the lyric "Won't you come / And wash away the rain" (3 wds.) |
| 33% | YOUWINAGAIN | 11 | Hit song by the Bee Gees voted as the band's second best song after 31a: 3 wds. |
| 33% | GOLDDUSTWOMAN | 13 | 1977 Fleetwood Mac song with the lyric "pick up the pieces and go home": 3 wds. |
| 33% | ENVOGUE | 7 | Girl group with the 1990s hits "Hold On" and "Free Your Mind": 2 wds. |
| 33% | ABBA | 4 | Popular Swedish group with hit songs like "Dancing Queen" and "Mamma Mia" |
| 33% | BENEKING | 8 | Singer with the 1961 and 1986 hit "Stand by Me": 3 wds. |
| 33% | THEBEACHBOYS | 12 | 14-Across and 26-Across band who also had a hit with the 1965 song "California Girls" (3 wds.) |
| 33% | IMTHEONE | 8 | Hit song by 14-Across, featuring 26-Across, Quavo, Chance the Rapper, and Lil Wayne: 3 wds. |
| 32% | BTS | 3 | Seven member K-pop boy group with the hit song "Permission to Dance" |