| 100% | ARETHA | 6 | She sang at Barack's first inauguration |
| 80% | ARETHA | 6 | She sang at Barack's inauguration |
| 78% | ARETHA | 6 | She sang at Barack’s 2008 Inauguration ceremony |
| 64% | ARETHA | 6 | Singer at Barack's first inauguration |
| 63% | ARETHA | 6 | She sang "America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee)" at Barack's inauguration |
| 58% | ARETHA | 6 | Franklin who sang at Obama's first inauguration |
| 48% | ARETHA | 6 | Singer at Barack's inauguration |
| 45% | YOYOMA | 6 | Cellist at Obama's first inauguration |
| 44% | ARETHA | 6 | Singer at Barack's 2009 inauguration ceremony |
| 44% | ARETHA | 6 | Singer of "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" at Barack's inauguration |
| 41% | RICHARDBLANCO | 13 | Poet who read "One Today" at Barack Obama's second inauguration (2 wds.) |
| 41% | JESSYENORMAN | 12 | Georgia-born soprano who sang at Ronald Reagan's second inauguration: 2 wds. |
| 41% | YOYOMA | 6 | Musician who performed at Obama's first inauguration |
| 41% | ANGELOU | 7 | Poet who read at Clinton's first inauguration |
| 41% | ARETHA | 6 | Franklin who performed at Obama's first inauguration |
| 40% | ANGELOU | 7 | She recited her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at Clinton's first inauguration |
| 39% | JONIMITCHELL | 12 | Singer-songwriter who sang "Both Sides Now" at the 2024 Grammy Awards in her first-ever Grammy performance (2 wds.) |
| 38% | LONGORIA | 8 | Actress Eva who's pregnant with her first child at age 42 |
| 38% | ARETHA | 6 | Singer Franklin who performed at Obama's first inauguration |
| 38% | IAN | 3 | She sang "At Seventeen" |
| 38% | OER | 3 | “I saw her singing at her work, / And ___ the sickle bending”: William Wordsworth |
| 37% | ODETTA | 6 | She sang at the march where Martin Luther King Jr. made his "I Have a Dream" speech |
| 35% | PETRIFIED | 9 | At first I was afraid I was __, sang Gloria Gaynor |
| 35% | ARNE | 4 | Barack's first secretary of education |
| 35% | RAHM | 4 | Barack's first chief of staff |
| 35% | MELBA | 5 | Dame Nellie, who sang at the Met for the first time in 1893 |
| 34% | DIANAROSS | 9 | She sang "You Keep Me Hangin' On" during halftime at the 1996 Super Bowl: 2 wds. |
| 34% | ANGELOU | 7 | Poet who read an original piece at Clinton's first inauguration |
| 33% | HIRAM | 5 | Ulysses S. Grant’s first name at birth |