| 100% | CELINEDION | 10 | Singer whose first top 10 hit was "Where Does My Heart Beat Now" |
| 40% | REM | 3 | Band whose first top-10 hit was "The One I Love" |
| 36% | MAGICMAN | 8 | 1976 Heart song that was their first top 10 hit: 2 wds. |
| 36% | BECK | 4 | Singer whose first hit was 1994's "Loser" |
| 35% | BILLIE | 6 | With 31-Across, singer whose 2019 album "When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?" hit #1 when she was 17 |
| 35% | ERESTU | 6 | 1974 top 10 hit whose title means "You Are" |
| 35% | SEAL | 4 | Single-named singer whose first hit was 1990's "Crazy" |
| 33% | YOUMIGHTTHINK | 13 | The Cars Top 10 hit whose video features 44-Across as a housefly (and was the first to win the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year) (3 wds.) |
| 32% | ABBA | 4 | Group whose last Top 40 hit was "When All Is Said and Done" |
| 32% | BORDERLINE | 10 | 1984 top 10 Madonna hit where "you just keep on pushing my love" |
| 32% | DOES | 4 | Celine Dion's "Where ___ My Heart Beat Now" |
| 30% | CYNDILAUPER | 11 | Singer/songwriter whose first #1 hit song was 15-Across (2 wds.) |
| 30% | ATEENAGERINLOVE | 15 | Dion and the Belmonts' first Top 10 hit |
| 30% | SPANISHHARLEM | 13 | Ben E. King's first Top 10 hit |
| 30% | EVIL | 4 | "___ Ways" (Santana's first Top 10 hit song) |
| 30% | DRIVE | 5 | The Cars Top 10 hit whose video was directed by actor Timothy Hutton and stars model Paulina Porizkova (who married 44-Across) |
| 30% | LEANNRIMES | 10 | Singer whose "How Do I Live" spent 32 weeks in the Billboard Top 10 in 1997 and 1998: 2 wds. |
| 30% | HENDERSON | 9 | Singer whose first single was "Ghost": Ella __ |
| 30% | WHATYOUNEED | 11 | INXS's first top 10 hit, from 1986: 3 wds. |
| 29% | RIHANNA | 7 | Singer whose first #1 single was 2006's "SOS" |
| 29% | CELINEDION | 10 | Singer whose 1998 song "My Heart Will Go On" debuted at #1: 2 wds. |
| 29% | GRAY | 4 | R&B singer Macy whose first hit was "I Try" |
| 28% | LILY | 4 | British pop singer Allen whose first hit was 2006's "Smile" |
| 28% | EDDIEMONEY | 10 | Singer of the Top 10 hit "Walk on Water" |
| 28% | PSY | 3 | Singer whose biggest hit was "Gangnam Style" |
| 28% | LAYLA | 5 | 1972 top 10 hit that was over 7 minutes long |
| 28% | STANDBACK | 9 | 1983 top 10 hit for Stevie Nicks, the first woman to be inducted twice (in 1998 and 2019) into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: 2 wds. |
| 28% | LUISFONSI | 9 | Singer whose hit Despacito was remixed by Bieber |
| 28% | BILLYJOEL | 9 | "My Life" singer whose last name is a common first name: 2 wds. |
| 27% | ONEREPUBLIC | 11 | Pop band whose first hit was "Apologize" |