| GBH | Punk band whose debut album was City BabyAttacked By Rats (1.1.1) |
| OBAMA | President whose frequent walkout song was "City of Blinding Lights" |
| REM | Band whose debut album, "Murmur," was Rolling Stone's 1983 Album of the Year |
| ABC | Band whose debut studio album was The Lexicon of Love (3) |
| ELO | Band whose debut song was "10538 Overture" |
| BIGCOUNTRY | Scottish band whose debut album was "The Crossing" |
| STROKES | With "The," band whose debut album was 2001's "Is This It" |
| ACDC | Legendary band whose debut album was "High Voltage" |
| OPSHOP | New Zealand band whose debut album was titled You Are Here (6) |
| OASIS | Manchester rock band whose debut album was Definitely Maybe (5) |
| ARCADEFIRE | Rock band whose debut album was "Funeral" |
| LINKINPARK | U.S. rock band whose debut album was Hybrid Theory (6,4) |
| ROSEROYCE | 1970s-'80s band whose debut album was the soundtrack to a Richard Pryor film |
| DIRECTION | Band whose debut album was entitled 'Up All Night', 'One -' (9) |
| NAS | Rapper whose debut album was 1994's "Illmatic" |
| SAM | Smith whose debut album was In the Lonely Hour |
| GLASVEGAS | Scottish indie rock band whose debut album was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2009 (9) |
| CUTIE | Death Cab for ___, American rock band whose debut album was Something About Airplanes, released in 1998 |
| BLOCPARTY | English rock band whose debut album, Silent Alarm, was voted Album of the Year for 2005 by NME (4,5) |
| HEART | Band whose debut album "Dreamboat Annie" was released in the U.S. on Valentine's Day in 1976 |
