From years 1970 to 2002 inclusive, what were the top 10 IPOs for each
of those years?

Simon --

This is a lot of work.  I did my graduate thesis on the IPO market for
1975, when the stock market had bottomed and there were only about 73
IPOs (trusting my ancient memory).  In the 1999-2000 period there were
thousands of IPOs each year.

The appropriate way to do the research would be to use the Center for
Research of Security Prices (CRSP) database at the University of
Chicago's Graduate School of Business:
http://gsbwww.uchicago.edu/research/crsp/

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA
University of Chicago, GSB, 1979

what is your criteria for "top IPOs"? Size of the deal or price
performance? size can be answered relatively quickly.  price
performance, however, is more complicated. if you wanted to know 7- or
30-day performance, i could do that.  anything beyond that horizon
adds significannt complexity.

[Responding to supertemp247's comments] You wrote "what is your
criteria for "top IPOs"? Size of the deal or price
performance? size can be answered relatively quickly.  price
performance, however, is more complicated. if you wanted to know 7- or
30-day performance, i could do that.  anything beyond that horizon
adds significannt complexity."

My response --> It would be interesting to judge criteria by size of
deal for one set, and whatever price per performance (7- or 30-day)
data that is readily available, for the other.  Thanks!