Playlists

The Folio · No. 22Saturday 26 September 2026Jess Entwistle

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

Wake up · 12 songs

Morning comes in gold

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The songs
  1. 1

    Now We Can Sing

    Max Richter · his first single ahead of an October album

  2. 2

    I Have a Dream

    Amanda Seyfried

  3. 3

    The Nearness of You

    Norah Jones

  4. 4

    Patient Zero

    Taylor Swift · from the Showgirl Encore tracks

  5. 5

    Carmen

    Olivia Dean

  6. 6

    Wayfaring Stranger

    Eva Cassidy

  7. 7

    Beautiful

    Carole King

  8. 8

    Sweet Creature

    Harry Styles

  9. 9

    And So It Goes

    Billy Joel

  10. 10

    Can’t Love You Anymore

    Kacey Musgraves

  11. 11

    My Love

    Westlife

  12. 12

    I Hope You Dance

    Lee Ann Womack

Shower · 12 songs

Big chorus, no audience

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The songs
  1. 1

    Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)

    ABBA

  2. 2

    Busy Woman

    Sabrina Carpenter

  3. 3

    One Kiss

    Dua Lipa

  4. 4

    I Have Nothing

    Whitney Houston

  5. 5

    Hero

    Mariah Carey

  6. 6

    Stick to the Status Quo

    High School Musical Cast

  7. 7

    Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)

    Beyonce

  8. 8

    Wrecking Ball

    Miley Cyrus

  9. 9

    Firework

    Katy Perry

  10. 10

    Into You

    Ariana Grande

  11. 11

    I Won’t Cry

    Remi Wolf · out yesterday, from her album Mud

  12. 12

    brutal

    Olivia Rodrigo · her Unraveled Tour opened this week

Work · 12 songs

Desk light, soft strings

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The songs
  1. 1

    Willoughby

    Patrick Doyle · from the 1995 Sense and Sensibility score, as the new adaptation opens

  2. 2

    They Can’t Take That Away From Me

    Beegie Adair · a Gershwin standard, for the Fred Astaire film cast today

  3. 3

    Enchanted

    Vitamin String Quartet

  4. 4

    River Flows in You

    Brooklyn Duo

  5. 5

    Colors of the Wind

    One Piano

  6. 6

    Once Upon a Dream

    Walt’s Piano

  7. 7

    Una Mattina

    Ludovico Einaudi

  8. 8

    The Path of the Wind

    Joe Hisaishi

  9. 9

    Some Other Time

    Bill Evans

  10. 10

    Ants Marching / Ode to Joy

    The Piano Guys

  11. 11

    Darcy’s Letter

    Dario Marianelli

  12. 12

    Burn

    Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox

Car · 13 songs

Windows down, A38

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The songs
  1. 1

    Hurricane

    Luke Combs

  2. 2

    Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?

    Shania Twain

  3. 3

    Wannabe

    Spice Girls

  4. 4

    S.O.S.

    Jonas Brothers

  5. 5

    I Had Some Help

    Post Malone

  6. 6

    Cowgirls

    Morgan Wallen

  7. 7

    Church Bells

    Carrie Underwood

  8. 8

    Nicotine

    Ella Langley

  9. 9

    Troubled Waters

    Alex Warren

  10. 10

    Somebody Told Me

    The Killers

  11. 11

    H.O.L.Y.

    Florida Georgia Line

  12. 12

    Boston

    Stella Lefty · a second week at number one on Country Airplay

  13. 13

    I’m Still Standing

    Elton John · he opens London’s Apple Music Hall