Playlists

The Folio · No. 10Monday 14 September 2026Jess Entwistle

Once connected, each morning's four playlists are built in your Spotify, dated, ready to open here.

Wake up · 13 songs

Light comes in slowly

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The songs
  1. 1

    Don’t Know Why

    Norah Jones

  2. 2

    The Power of Love

    Céline Dion · her Paris residency opened this weekend

  3. 3

    Songbird

    Eva Cassidy

  4. 4

    So Far Away

    Carole King

  5. 5

    Ladies Room

    Olivia Dean

  6. 6

    This Love

    Taylor Swift

  7. 7

    Light of a Clear Blue Morning

    Dolly Parton · Nashville’s airport is moving to take her name

  8. 8

    Budapest

    George Ezra

  9. 9

    Follow Your Arrow

    Kacey Musgraves

  10. 10

    Just the Way You Are

    Billy Joel

  11. 11

    Weird Fishes

    Lianne La Havas

  12. 12

    My Love

    Westlife

  13. 13

    The Name of the Game

    Amanda Seyfried

Shower · 14 songs

All the big notes

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The songs
  1. 1

    Can’t Get You Out of My Head

    Kylie Minogue · 25 years old, and in today’s paper

  2. 2

    How Will I Know

    Whitney Houston

  3. 3

    Nonsense

    Sabrina Carpenter

  4. 4

    Break My Heart

    Dua Lipa

  5. 5

    Super Trouper

    Meryl Streep, Julie Walters, Christine Baranski

  6. 6

    You Are the Music in Me

    High School Musical Cast

  7. 7

    Party in the U.S.A.

    Miley Cyrus

  8. 8

    CUFF IT

    Beyoncé

  9. 9

    Vision of Love

    Mariah Carey

  10. 10

    Get the Party Started

    P!nk

  11. 11

    When in Rome

    Dove Cameron · Billboard readers voted it the week’s best new song

  12. 12

    Break Free

    Ariana Grande

  13. 13

    For the Gaze

    Original Broadway Cast of Death Becomes Her · the North American tour has opened in Cleveland

  14. 14

    Shout Out to My Ex

    Little Mix

Work · 13 songs

Steady hands

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The songs
  1. 1

    Blank Space

    Vitamin String Quartet

  2. 2

    Kung Fu Piano: Cello Ascends

    The Piano Guys

  3. 3

    Thinking Out Loud

    Brooklyn Duo

  4. 4

    How Far I’ll Go

    Walt’s Piano

  5. 5

    Shake It Off

    Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox

  6. 6

    Someday My Prince Will Come

    Bill Evans

  7. 7

    Any Other Name

    Thomas Newman

  8. 8

    Married Life

    Michael Giacchino

  9. 9

    Time

    Hans Zimmer

  10. 10

    Divenire

    Ludovico Einaudi

  11. 11

    One Summer’s Day

    Joe Hisaishi

  12. 12

    Hymn to the Sea

    James Horner · where Céline Dion’s biggest song came from

  13. 13

    Liz on Top of the World

    Dario Marianelli · for the Austen escapes in today’s Hotels

Car · 13 songs

Windows down, Monday gone

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The songs
  1. 1

    Ka-Ching!

    Shania Twain

  2. 2

    Going, Going, Gone

    Luke Combs

  3. 3

    Love Story

    Taylor Swift

  4. 4

    Undo It

    Carrie Underwood

  5. 5

    Formation

    Beyoncé

  6. 6

    Holler

    Spice Girls

  7. 7

    Pour Me A Drink

    Post Malone

  8. 8

    Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)

    Katy Perry

  9. 9

    Waffle House

    Jonas Brothers

  10. 10

    9 to 5

    Dolly Parton · tonight’s Emmys tribute is hers

  11. 11

    Fancy

    Reba McEntire · Reba leads that tribute

  12. 12

    Rock Star

    Hannah Montana

  13. 13

    Mr. Brightside

    The Killers