playlist

Etymology

play + list

noun

1. (radio) A list of recorded songs scheduled to be played on a radio station.
2. (computing) 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. 1998, Judi N. Fernandez, WAVs, MIDIs & RealAudio: Enjoying Sound on Your Computer
   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. 2015-11-17, Robinson Meyer, “A Eulogy for Rdio”, in The Atlantic
   No past, just traces / Nowhere to play, just playlists 2021, “Skyline”, in Parallel World, performed by Cadence Weapon
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. 2009, John Niven, Kill Your Friends, Harper Collins, page 7