If you graduated from high school in the last 10 years, there’s a 50/50 chance that Kane Brown or Morgan Wallen had the most played song on country radio that year.
If your high school graduation came in the 1980s, Willie Nelson — or Clint Black — might have been your guy.
For ’90s kids, it was a whole lot of Tim McGraw.
This isn’t as much a list of great country graduation songs (find a really bad example of one of those in 2015) as it is a list of songs that shaped culture in the year you finished school. Three artists dominated three years each — can you find them?
Our research goes back to 1946, which means anyone who is 98 years old or younger will be able to enjoy the nostalgia. Hank Williams, Hank Thompson and Hank Snow dominated in the ’40s and ’50s. Come to think of it, “I’m Movin’ On” could be a fitting wave goodbye to those structured formative years.
Scroll down to find the most played country song on the radio for the year you graduated high school. Each entry also features a link to listen to the song. Take a listen and travel back to a time of cheaper gas, albums on vinyl and car widows with a crank courtesy of some of country music’s best and most popular artists.
See the Most Played Country Song From the Year You Graduated
Who had the most played country song during the year you were born? This list is a fascinating time capsule of prevalent trends from every decade in American history. Scroll through to find your birth year and then click to listen. Some of these songs have been lost through the years, many of them for good reason!
Gallery Credit: Billy Dukes