| 100% | UPONCRPLECREEK | 14 | The Band's first Top 40 hit |
| 68% | PIANOMAN | 8 | Billy Joel's first Top 40 hit |
| 66% | BORNTORUN | 9 | Springsteen's first Top 40 hit |
| 65% | ROCKMEBA | 8 | B.B. King's first Top 40 hit |
| 65% | AMIE | 4 | Pure Prairie League's first Top 40 hit |
| 59% | EATIT | 5 | First Top 40 hit for "Weird Al" |
| 58% | EATIT | 5 | First Top 40 hit for Weird Al Yankovic |
| 57% | REM | 3 | Band whose first top-10 hit was "The One I Love" |
| 56% | MOTLEYCRUE | 10 | 1980s hair band whose first Top 20 hit was "Smokin' in the Boys Room" (2 wds.) |
| 55% | STILLINTOYOU | 12 | 2013 single that was Paramore's first Top 10 hit on the "Billboard" Mainstream Top 40 chart (3 wds.) |
| 54% | TOTO | 4 | Band whose first hit was 1978's "Hold the Line" |
| 54% | PERSDELIGHT | 11 | 1979 Top 40 hit for the Sugarhill Gang |
| 53% | LABAMBA | 7 | Top 40 hit whose first two words translate to "to dance" |
| 53% | LINUSANDLUCY | 12 | Top 40 hit on the soundtrack for "A Charlie Brown Christmas" |
| 53% | RAITT | 5 | Bonnie with five Top 40 hits in the 1990s |
| 52% | ITSMYLIFE | 9 | Top 40 hit from the 2000 Bon Jovi album "Crush" (3 wds.) |
| 52% | REM | 3 | Band whose final top 40 hit was "Bang and Blame" |
| 52% | CHERRYCHERRY | 12 | Neil Diamond's first top-40 hit, with a repetitive title: 2 wds. |
| 51% | DANCETOTHEMUSIC | 15 | First top-10 hit for Sly and the Family Stone |
| 50% | ANKA | 4 | Pop star with top 40 hits in the 1950s, '60s, '70s and '80s |
| 48% | ABBA | 4 | Band whose first hit in the US was "Waterloo" |
| 47% | BEG | 3 | "Ain't 2 Proud 2 ___" (first Top 40 hit for TLC) |
| 46% | REO | 3 | ___ Speedwagon (rock band with 13 top-40 hits in the '70s and '80s) |
| 46% | DEFLEPPARD | 10 | 1980s hair band whose first Top 20 hit was "Photograph" (2 wds.) |
| 46% | ATEENAGERINLOVE | 15 | Dion and the Belmonts' first Top 10 hit |
| 46% | IGETAROUND | 10 | 1964 Beach Boys hit that was the band's first #1 single: 3 wds. |
| 46% | POISON | 6 | 1980s hair band whose first Top 20 hit was "Talk Dirty to Me" |
| 46% | WINGER | 6 | 1980s hair band whose first Top 20 hit was "Headed for a Heartbreak" |
| 45% | BORDERLINE | 10 | Madonna's first top 10 hit |
| 45% | TUNNELVISION | 12 | 2017 Kodak Black hit, his first in the top 10: 2 wds. |