If you were born after 1958, and you are curious about the top five songs on the radio the week you were born, click here.

If you wish to make an argument one way or another about the declining quality of pop music over the years, that’s your site too.

In my case, the top in correct reverse order were …

… none of which are on my personal top five singles list.

What about the week of my high school graduation?

OK, how about my college graduation?

Apparently my life has been surrounded by sappy ballady dreck. Wedding?

Off this list of 20 top-five songs I would choose to listen to five of them … maybe. As I’ve written here before, quality and popularity are not necessarily synonymous.

There is a related website that lists the top rock, instead of pop, songs dating back to the 1980s. So let’s try (the entire year of) 1983 …

… and 1988 …

… and 1992 again:

Better.