Playlists

The Folio · No. 13Thursday 17 September 2026Jess Entwistle

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

Wake up · 12 songs

Soft grey light

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The songs
  1. 1

    Come Away With Me

    Norah Jones

  2. 2

    The Hardest Part

    Olivia Dean

  3. 3

    Georgiana

    Dario Marianelli · from Joe Wright’s Pride & Prejudice, as Netflix shows its own

  4. 4

    Because You Loved Me

    Céline Dion · night two of her Paris residency

  5. 5

    True Colors

    Eva Cassidy

  6. 6

    Beautiful

    Carole King

  7. 7

    Daylight

    Taylor Swift

  8. 8

    Here You Come Again

    Dolly Parton · the Americana Awards paid tribute to her last night

  9. 9

    Camera Roll

    Kacey Musgraves

  10. 10

    She’s Got a Way

    Billy Joel

  11. 11

    Bittersweet

    Lianne La Havas

  12. 12

    Home

    Westlife

Shower · 12 songs

Loud in the steam

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The songs
  1. 1

    Hung Up

    Madonna · she opens the VMAs, her first performance there in 23 years

  2. 2

    I’m Every Woman

    Whitney Houston

  3. 3

    Taste

    Sabrina Carpenter

  4. 4

    Dancing Queen

    ABBA

  5. 5

    We’re All in This Together

    High School Musical Cast

  6. 6

    The Bitch of Living

    Original Broadway Cast of Spring Awakening · a new cast was announced today

  7. 7

    Black Magic

    Little Mix

  8. 8

    New Rules

    Dua Lipa

  9. 9

    Smile

    Lily Allen · her West End Girl tour is her first sober one

  10. 10

    positions

    Ariana Grande

  11. 11

    Always Be My Baby

    Mariah Carey

  12. 12

    Roar

    Katy Perry

Work · 13 songs

Quiet hours, good strings

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The songs
  1. 1

    Enchanted

    Vitamin String Quartet

  2. 2

    My Funny Valentine

    Brooklyn Duo · Carnegie Hall is planning a Rodgers and Hart night

  3. 3

    Story of My Life

    The Piano Guys

  4. 4

    Part of Your World

    Walt’s Piano

  5. 5

    Kiss the Girl

    One Piano

  6. 6

    Bad Romance

    Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox

  7. 7

    Elegy for the Arctic

    Ludovico Einaudi

  8. 8

    A Town with an Ocean View

    Joe Hisaishi

  9. 9

    Infra 5

    Max Richter

  10. 10

    Waltz for Debby

    Bill Evans

  11. 11

    Mr. Moustafa

    Alexandre Desplat · for the day the World’s 50 Best Hotels list landed

  12. 12

    Rue’s Farewell

    James Newton Howard · the Sunrise on the Reaping trailer arrived yesterday

  13. 13

    The Way You Look Tonight

    Beegie Adair

Car · 13 songs

The long way home

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The songs
  1. 1

    Up!

    Shania Twain

  2. 2

    American Girl

    Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers · the original Heartbreakers reunited last night

  3. 3

    Style

    Taylor Swift

  4. 4

    Beautiful Crazy

    Luke Combs

  5. 5

    Read My Mind

    The Killers

  6. 6

    Chemical

    Post Malone

  7. 7

    Paranoid

    Black Sabbath · their farewell gig reaches cinemas next month

  8. 8

    TEXAS HOLD ‘EM

    Beyoncé

  9. 9

    Year 3000

    Jonas Brothers

  10. 10

    Wrecking Ball

    Miley Cyrus

  11. 11

    Weren’t For The Wind

    Ella Langley

  12. 12

    Magnetic

    Friendly Fires · the new single from the album they announced yesterday

  13. 13

    Cowboy Casanova

    Carrie Underwood