--- title: Playlist Generator Plays Hit Music From Your Graduation Year description: A new graduation playlist generator from iHeartRadio throws it back to the year you graduated, showing all the biggest hits from your youth. canonical: https://time.com/5279410/graduation-playlist-generator/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-05-16T16:44:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:52:54.583Z og:title: It's Time to Play the Hit Songs From Your Graduation Year og:description: Relive your glory days og:url: https://time.com/5279410/graduation-playlist-generator/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt17a40826a87307d9/6989308bab6d77899c6b2ade/graduation-caps-in-air.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: University Students Celebrate Their Graduation og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: It's Time to Play the Hit Songs From Your Graduation Year twitter:description: Relive your glory days twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt17a40826a87307d9/6989308bab6d77899c6b2ade/graduation-caps-in-air.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Relive Your Glory Days By Playing the Hit Songs From the Year You Graduated  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner May 16, 2018 4:44 PM UTC  Students throw up their graduate caps during the 11th celebrations of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitaet on July 4, 2015 in Bonn, Germany. Students throw up their graduate caps during the 11th celebrations of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitaet on July 4, 2015 in Bonn, Germany.Andreas Rentz—Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner May 16, 2018 4:44 PM UTC Spring is in the air — and so is [graduation season](http://time.com/5037890/will-ferrell-i-will-always-love-you-usc-graduation/). Remember those halcyon years of your youth? To help you with that trip down memory lane, [iHeartRadio](http://time.com/5195505/eminem-on-out-nra-iheartradio-awards-2018/) launched a [graduation playlist generator](https://www.iheart.com/flash/graduation-playlist/). The [free site](https://www.iheart.com/flash/graduation-playlist/) lets you plug in your graduation year (high school, college, or whatever you prefer), and out pops a playlist of all the songs that were big while you were wearing cap and gown — and perhaps attending graduation dance parties set to those exact tunes. If you made the jump from college to real world in 2005, for instance, [Kelly Clarkson](http://time.com/4998252/kelly-clarkson-fun-with-soul/)‘s memorable hit “Since U Been Gone” would have been blasting through dorm speakers, and Nickelback’s “Photograph” was making its rounds. If you were a 2009 grad, however, prepare for a reminder of the [Lady Gaga](http://time.com/5122389/lady-gaga-grammys-times-up/) pre-eminence era. (After all, this was around when she had just released seminal hits “Poker Face” and “Just Dance.”) And [Kesha](http://time.com/collection-post/5217625/kesha/)? She was still Ke$ha then — and was inspiring the youth to wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy on “TiK ToK.” Fast forward to 2013, though, and recall Taylor Swift’s “I Knew You Were Trouble” [coexisting](http://time.com/4914066/taylor-swift-katy-perry-feud-timeline/) alongside Katy Perry’s “Roar.” (On the ballad side there was [Rihanna](http://time.com/5276362/rihanna-royal-wedding/)‘s “Stay,” to help you get out all those end-of-an-era feelings.) The [graduation playlist generator](https://www.iheart.com/flash/graduation-playlist/) tracks grad years back to 1950, so take it for a spin and see how many of the songs stir up that good old nostalgia for golden days gone by. And congrats, 2018 grads. Just know you will forever associate this moment with Bruno Mars and Cardi B’s “Finesse (Remix)” and Drake’s [“God’s Plan.”](http://time.com/5162778/drake-gods-plan/) > [](https://twitter.com/iHeartRadio/status/996769299644796928) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5279410/graduation-playlist-generator/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5279410/graduation-playlist-generator/"},"headline":"Relive Your Glory Days By Playing the Hit Songs From the Year You Graduated","datePublished":"2018-05-16T16:44:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:52:54.583Z","description":"\"Boom Boom Pow,\" anyone?","url":"https://time.com/5279410/graduation-playlist-generator/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","graduation"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt17a40826a87307d9/6989308bab6d77899c6b2ade/graduation-caps-in-air.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt17a40826a87307d9/6989308bab6d77899c6b2ade/graduation-caps-in-air.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"University Students Celebrate Their Graduation","caption":"University Students Celebrate Their Graduation","creditText":"Andreas Rentz—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5279410/graduation-playlist-generator/","name":"Relive Your Glory Days By Playing the Hit Songs From the Year You Graduated"}}]}] ```