playlist
noun
play·list
ˈplā-ˌlist 
: a list of recordings to be played on the air by a radio station
also
: a similar list used for organizing a personal digital music collection
Examples of playlist in a Sentence
Most of the city's DJs have added the song to their playlists.
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Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.
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Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2025
His pregame playlists purposefully lowered his blood pressure instead of spiking his adrenaline.
—Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
The playlist includes several more songs that will help prepare your preschooler for Halloween.
—Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 17 Oct. 2025
Or perhaps a person could tell Copilot to put all available Brian Eno songs into a Spotify playlist and have the assistant push play, Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft's consumer marketing chief, told reporters in a briefing.
—Jordan Novet, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2025
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Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2025
His pregame playlists purposefully lowered his blood pressure instead of spiking his adrenaline.
—Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
The playlist includes several more songs that will help prepare your preschooler for Halloween.
—Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 17 Oct. 2025
Or perhaps a person could tell Copilot to put all available Brian Eno songs into a Spotify playlist and have the assistant push play, Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft's consumer marketing chief, told reporters in a briefing.
—Jordan Novet, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2025
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“Playlist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/playlist. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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