playlist

noun

1. A list of recorded songs scheduled to be played on a radio station.
2. A list of tracks or videos to be played in a particular sequence, as from an audio CD or a streaming service.

   “When you collect a group of MIDIs into an album, you can play them much like a CD, with repeat mode, random mode, and a programmed playlist.”

   “Strangers constructed playlists that pulled from artists and albums you’d never heard of, but without the performative high/low-ness that afflicts so much online music talk.”

   “I hadn't spoken to her in a year, but she could still see my listens on the music platform we both used. I still went to those playlists for solace. A sense of collective understanding. We had stockpiled our youth.”

   “No past, just traces / Nowhere to play, just playlists”

   “When users would select the most immediately visible “dinner playlist” or ”workout mix,” they might have unknowingly clicked through to a list owned and operated by a major label.”

3. A list of songs, prepared for a band or musical artist, to be performed during a concert; a setlist.

verb

1. (transitive)To include (a track) on a playlist.

   “She achieved success when her first single was playlisted on national radio.”

   “Suddenly they got a single playlisted at Radio 1 and the album went gold.”

   “And it's the story of how those problems then played out over the span of many years, as music became personalized, playlisted, autoplayed, and algorithmic.”