| LASTCHRISTMAS | Festive song by British duo Wham! which reached No.1 in 2021, 36 years after its release (4,9) |
| HABITS | Bad ____ , song by Ed Sheeran that was a UK No.1 in 2021 (6) |
| CAREY | Thirty years after its release, whose song All I Want for Christmas broke Spotify's record for the most streamed song within a single day? (6,5) |
| MARIAH | Thirty years after its release, whose song All I Want for Christmas broke Spotify's record for the most streamed song within a single day? (6,5) |
| SIA | Artist whose "Unstoppable" appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2022, six years after its release |
| PSYCHO | Hitchcock film given an R rating 24 years after its release |
| CLUBTROPICANA | Song by English pop duo Wham! released in 1983 (4,9) |
| TEARSFORFEARS | British duo formed in the early 1980s by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith |
| THEWARONDRUGS | Program that a 2011 global commission officially declared a failure, 40 years after its launch |
| SORRY | Song by Justin Bieber which reached No.1 in New Zealand in November 2015 (5) |
| ALLOVER | Glad _ _. 1963 song by the Dave Clarke Five which reached No.1 in New Zealand (3,4) |
| CLOUD | 1965 song by The Rolling Stones which reached No.1 in the UK and US, the follow-up to (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (3,3,2,2,5) |
| OFMY | 1965 song by The Rolling Stones which reached No.1 in the UK and US, the follow-up to (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (3,3,2,2,5) |
| GETOFF | 1965 song by The Rolling Stones which reached No.1 in the UK and US, the follow-up to (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (3,3,2,2,5) |
| SING | 2014 song by Ed Sheeran which reached No.1 in multiple countries (4) |
| MAIN | Exile on ___ St, album by the Rolling Stones which reached No.1 in 1972 and 2010 (4) |
| PERFECT | 2017 Ed Sheeran song which reached No.1 in 14 countries (7) |
| ERAS | "Taylor Swift: The ___ Tour" (movie that broke the record for highest-grossing concert film shortly after its release, in October, 2023) |
| ALLI | ___ Want For Christmas is You song by Mariah Carey that topped the charts after 25 years of its release: 2 wds. |
| SLEEPERHIT | Song that climbs charts long after its release, e.g. |
