| 100% | CHARLENE | 8 | Singer with a one hit wonder I've Never Been to Me |
| 48% | NICKS | 5 | Stevie ___, singer who was a member of Fleetwood Mac before having a successful solo career with hits like "Talk to Me" |
| 47% | GOTYE | 5 | One-named singer with the hit "Somebody That I Used to Know" |
| 46% | RUNWITHTHEHERD | 14 | "But I've never been one to ___ ..." |
| 45% | KESHA | 5 | One-named singer whose name used to be spelled with a dollar sign |
| 44% | NENA | 4 | One-named German singer who was a one-hit wonder |
| 43% | HELLO | 5 | Adele hit song with the lyric "When I call, you never seem to be home" |
| 42% | ROBYN | 5 | One-named singer with the 1997 hit "Show Me Love" |
| 42% | TRINILOPEZ | 10 | Singer with the 1963 hit "If I Had a Hammer" |
| 42% | EDSELS | 6 | 1960's doo-wop group that was a one-hit wonder, with "the" |
| 42% | ROBYN | 5 | One-named Swedish singer with the 1997 hit "Show Me Love" |
| 40% | BALL | 4 | "Wrecking ___" (Miley Cyrus hit with the lyrics "I never hit so hard in love / All I wanted was to break your walls") |
| 40% | GOTYE | 5 | Singer with the 2012 #1 hit "Somebody That I Used to Know" |
| 39% | TOBY | 4 | Country singer ___ Keith with the hit "Should've Been a Cowboy" |
| 39% | HALSEY | 6 | One-named singer with the 2019 #1 hit "Without Me" |
| 39% | BENEKING | 8 | Singer who had a 1961 hit with Stand By Me |
| 38% | FLAT | 4 | What an a cappella singer never wants to be |
| 38% | WAR | 3 | "There never was a good" one, according to Franklin |
| 38% | CHER | 4 | One-named singer with Top 10 hits in each decade from the 1960s to the 2010s |
| 38% | CHER | 4 | One-named singer with Top 10 hits in each decade from the 1960s to the 2020s |
| 38% | TAYLORSWIFT | 11 | Country singer with the 2012 #1 hit "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" |
| 38% | DIPLO | 5 | American EDM DJ who had a 2019 hit with "Close to Me" |
| 38% | FREDDY | 6 | Singer Fender with a 1975 hit that went to #1 on both the pop and country charts |
| 37% | DIDO | 4 | One-named singer who had a big hit with "Thank You" in 2001 |
| 37% | BEBE | 4 | ___ Rexha, pop singer with the 2017 #2 hit "Meant to Be" |
| 37% | TONI | 4 | Singer Watson, a.k.a. Tones and I, with the 2019 hit "Dance Monkey" |
| 37% | ANGER | 5 | "___ is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one": Benjamin Franklin |
| 37% | LITTLEEVA | 9 | Singer with a 1962 #1 hit that started a dance craze (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) |
| 36% | OSCAR | 5 | (With 13-Across) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go" |
| 36% | REM | 3 | Band that had a 1987 top 10 hit with "The One I Love" |