playlist

noun

play·​list ˈplā-ˌlist How to pronounce playlist (audio)
: 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.
Recent Examples on the Web The Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video to Stream Now Also included in your Prime membership: Amazon Music, a music streaming library with millions of songs, podcasts, playlists, and radio stations. Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 8 May 2024 Instead of hewing to Billboard categories, the playlist was built for cross-genre music discovery, with mixes that cull, collect, and collage up-and-coming artists from a sweep of what Spotify calls micro-genres. Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 8 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for playlist 

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Word History

First Known Use

1972, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of playlist was in 1972

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“Playlist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/playlist. Accessed 14 May. 2024.

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