| 100% | SORARE | 6 | Title lyric after "Ours is a love …" in a 1950s hit |
| 88% | SORARE | 6 | Title lyric after "Ours is a love …" in a Jimmy Dorsey hit |
| 68% | SORARE | 6 | Title words after "ours is a love," in a Jimmy Dorsey classic |
| 47% | HELPMERHONDA | 12 | Title lyric heard 41 times in a 1965 Beach Boys hit |
| 46% | YEAH | 4 | Word repeated after "She loves you," in a '60s hit |
| 46% | PORTLAND | 8 | 2017 Drake hit whose title is a city in Oregon |
| 46% | PARIS | 5 | 2017 Chainsmokers hit whose title is a city in France |
| 46% | HAVANA | 6 | 2017 Camila Cabello hit whose title is a city in Cuba |
| 46% | MALIBU | 6 | 2017 Miley Cyrus hit whose title is a city in California |
| 46% | IGETIDEAS | 9 | 1950s title lyric after "When we are dancing and you're dangerously near me ..." |
| 44% | SHOOP | 5 | Title lyric before "ba-doop" in a 1993 Salt-N-Pepa hit |
| 44% | RESPECT | 7 | 1967 #1 hit whose title is spelled out in the lyric |
| 44% | RESPECT | 7 | #1 song hit whose title is spelled out in the lyrics |
| 43% | CAT | 3 | "Karma is a __ / Purring in my lap 'cause it loves me": Taylor Swift lyric |
| 43% | MAMASAEGO/ID | 12 | Title lyric that precedes "There'll be days like this" in a Shirelles classic |
| 43% | SKYS | 4 | "The ___ in love with you" (misheard lyric in a Herb Alpert hit) |
| 43% | AGORAHILLS | 10 | 2023 Doja Cat hit whose title is a tribute to a town she lived in: 2 wds. |
| 42% | WAP | 3 | 2020 song whose title is rhymed with bucket and a mop in its lyrics |
| 42% | WAP | 3 | 2020 No. 1 hit whose title acronym is compared to “macaroni in a pot” |
| 42% | IBELIEVEICANFLY | 15 | R. Kelly hit whose last title word is aptly rhymed with "sky" in the lyrics ... and a hint to the starts of the other four longest puzzle answers |
| 41% | IPANEMA | 7 | A girl was from there in a 1964 hit song |
| 41% | NOLA | 4 | Title girl in a 1922 hit |
| 41% | LOLA | 4 | Title person in a Kinks hit |
| 40% | RINTINTIN | 9 | Title role in a 1950s TV western |
| 40% | IPANEMA | 7 | Title place in a 1964 hit song |
| 40% | JUDE | 4 | Title guy in a Beatles hit song |
| 40% | ONLYTHELONELY | 13 | 1960 Roy Orbison hit that has the same title as, and is featured in, a 1991 John Candy film (3 wds.) |
| 40% | WELCOMETOMIAMI | 14 | Line immediately after "All night, on the beach till the break of dawn" in a 1997 Will Smith hit |
| 40% | TOSIR | 5 | Words sung "with love" in a 1967 hit |
| 40% | JUNO | 4 | Title teen in a 2007 hit indie film |