playlist
/ˈpleɪlɪst
/noun
1A list of recorded songs or pieces of music chosen to be broadcast on a radio show or by a particular radio station: the station is confident that the new playlists will please listeners...
- Marketing/promotion decisions, image-creation, and radio station playlists are all built around how artists and their music are perceived.
- In a few weeks it'll no doubt be populating radio station playlists everywhere and will be impossible to escape.
- Did you actually think that there's someone employed to painstakingly think up playlists for radio stations and write them up by hand or something?
1.1A list of digital files to be played on a portable media player, computer, etc. you can stream tracks or save playlists to your phone to listen offline...
- You are ready to slalom down an awesome ski slope, with an adrenaline-pumping playlist cued up on your MP3 player.
- The user can listen to stored music using playlists or listen to streaming Internet radio.
- Smart Playlists allow you to create your own playlists by specifying an unlimited number of criteria.
verb [with object]
Place (a song or piece of music) on a playlist: he was furious when they declined to playlist his hit (as noun playlisting) playlisting can be a significant factor in any record’s career...
- When your track is instantly playlisted by the big guns it's only a matter of time before you have a hot summer smash on your hands.
- BBC Radio 2 is to increase its live music output, launch a major new songwriting initiative and give artists greater support by playlisting albums.
- Modern versions of this kind of studio could allow various sound and video clips to be playlisted and cued in manually.