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6 unusual facts about Playlist


Playlist

Constraint satisfaction techniques were developed to create playlists that satisfy arbitrary "sequence constraints", such as continuity, diversity, similarity, etc.

Playlist: The Very Best of Our Lady Peace

Many popular favorites from Our Lady Peace, such as "One Man Army", "In Repair" and "Life", do not appear on the album.

Playlist: The Very Best of Ruben Studdard

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Playlist: The Very Best of Suicidal Tendencies

The album was released on January 26, 2010 as part of the Playlist music album series issued by Legacy Recordings, simultaneously with similarly unsanctioned best-of collections of the bands and solo artists Mariah Carey, Blue Öyster Cult, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, 311, R. Kelly, KRS-One and the Backstreet Boys.

Playlist: The Very Best of Ted Nugent

Playlist: The Very Best of Ted Nugent is a 2009 compilation album by the American hard rock musician Ted Nugent.

Playlist.com

On April 28, 2008, the RIAA and a coalition of nine record labels filed a lawsuit against the company for contributing to mass copyright infringement.


A Day Without Me

After DJ Carter Alan of WBCN in Boston heard "A Day Without Me" in a record store, he became a U2 fan and included the song in his playlist.

Alt Nation

The only 1990s song remaining on Alt Nation's playlist is Stellar by Incubus, from their 1999 album Make Yourself.

Box Television

The playlist is predominantly mainstream Urban Pop, Dance and R&B, although since its relaunch in Summer 2006, (and the launch of a sister channel Q) it has begun to focus more on dance music once again.

Carnival Glory

During that time, the RedFrog Rum Bar, Blue Iguana Tequila Bar, Alchemy Bar, EA Sports Bar, Guy Fieri’s Burger Joint, Blue Iguana Cantina, Punchliners Comedy Club & Brunch presented by George Lopez, Hasbro, The Game Show, Playlist Productions, DJ IRIE were added.

CHBE-FM

The shift to top 40 proved unsuccessful, and around August 2010, songs from the 1980s were phased back on the playlist, bringing the station back to hot AC.

CHFI-FM

At the same time, artists such as Michael Bolton, Air Supply and Jewel were largely dropped from the station's playlist.

CHUR-FM

By June 2012, the station dropped the entire 1980s library and most pre-2000 music from its playlist, making it one of the few AC stations to not follow the adult contemporary pattern.

CJMX-FM

By June 2012, the station dropped the entire 1980s library and most of pre-2000 music from its playlist, making it one of the few AC stations to not follow the adult contemporary pattern.

Daniel Agger

Agger selected Volbeat's The Garden's Tale as his choice for the "LFC Athens 2007 Playlist" in the build up of Liverpool's 2007 UEFA Champions League Final appearance.

Danny Michel

The title track was later included on a Playlist for the Planet released by the David Suzuki Foundation.

Eve, the Apple of My Eye

Sunday Tribune journalists Neil Dunphy and Una Mullally named it number 46 in their 2008 "ultimate playlist representing the top-50 Irish songs of all time", reminding readers that it was "chiefly known in the States as the soundtrack to that lesbian kiss in The OC".

Hits Now!

Its playlist is composed of mostly Top 40 (CHR) music from artists such as Rihanna, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, Ke$ha, The Black Eyed Peas, and Usher among others, that mainly targets listeners ages 18–49.

I Wayne

The track was reportedly the first roots reggae song to be added to the influential Hot 97 playlist.

Kathryn Prescott

In providing her "Top Ten Playlist" on the Skins official website, Prescott named Röyksopp, The Cardigans and Metallica as her favourite music.

Kiss TV

The playlist predominantly consists of mainstream hip-hop, Dance and R&B.

KOSO

In 1997, B93 began to transition towards a modern AC format, adding more alternative-leaning artists such as Alanis Morissette, Counting Crows, Gin Blossoms, and The Cranberries to its playlist.

KPLV

However, the station continues to lean rhythmic, even with '80s staples still on the station's playlist.

LHC Les Lions

While the playlist varies by season current songs on the match-night programme include Sleeping Satellite (Junior Caldera) and No Stress (Laurent Wolf).

MacCentral

MacCentral was a web site that provided news and information covering the Apple Macintosh, originally as an independent entity and later as the news service for Mac Publishing Web sites, including Macworld.com and Playlist, before being subsumed by Macworld's own brand.

Moodagent

Moodagent is an automated playlist generator and music recommendations system based on an ability to recognize emotional and musical characteristics of individual music tracks.

Playlistify

While building the service it grew into a more advanced site, giving user the possibility to share their playlists as well by embedding them on their own blogs, sites and social networks or sharing the playlist page through the Bitly-powered urlshortener Pli.st.

Rachel Cohn

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist was made into a movie directed by Peter Sollett and starred Michael Cera and Kat Dennings as Nick and Norah.

Richard Durand

His first creations were tech trance singles "Make Me Scream" and "Slipping Away" on the Terminal 4 label, but his real success started with remixes of Tiësto singles "Lethal Industry", "Flight 643" and "Break My Fall", and reworks of The Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up" and Snow Patrol's "Chasing Cars" which brought him into the playlist of DJs such as Armin van Buuren, Paul van Dyk, Ferry Corsten, Judge Jules and Eddie Halliwell.

Rusty Shackle

Maiden four track E.P. Hounds of Justice reached the heights of #2 in the iTunes Singer Songwriter charts and tracks from this also made BBC Radio Wales' main playlist.

Softcore Jukebox

According to Rob Mitchum from Pitchfork, "they've created a fantastic dance-party playlist, but one that could just as easily have been posted on their website as a guide-map through the Soulseek wilderness".

StarLite

StarLite leaned very hot AC and rhythmic AC, as a result, and only played music from the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, with Michael Jackson's Rock With You as the only 1970s song on the playlist.

The Opening Ritual

Articles in Kerrang and Noise magazines followed, with Geoff Barton tipping the band for the top in his prestigious "Breaking through in '82 feature," and playlist.

The Underdog Project

The biggest dance radio station in New York City, WKTU, also expressed support for the record and added it to their playlist, as well as market leader Power 96 in Miami.

The Youngest Was the Most Loved

The track was added to several UK playlists, including the B-List of BBC Radio 2, the A-List of BBC 6 Music, and XFM London's playlist.

This Ain't No Picnic

According to Michael Azerrad's book Our Band Could Be Your Life, Boon wanted to put a Los Angeles-area jazz/soul station on the radio, but his boss prevented him from doing so, calling the station's playlist "African-American excrement".

WDAS-FM

The station playlist included R&B, soul and funk, playing what would become the classics of their genre and launching careers of national artists like Lou Rawls and "Philadelphia Sound" acts such as The O'Jays, The Stylistics, Patti LaBelle and the Blue Bells, and Teddy Pendergrass.

WEDG

Recently in 2008, the station began playing more classic rock like The Cult, Van Halen, The Scorpions and U2 along with its current playlist as well as several 90s alternative bands like Weezer, Meat Puppets, and The Black Crowes.

WFFG-FM

In the late 2000s, soul music artists such as Adele, Duffy, and KT Tunstall began to be added to the playlist; however, by 2010, the station has become closer to a true modern rock format, although the station still plays some modern AC and AAA artists which are not found on most modern rock stations.

WFLY

Formerly, American Top 40 with Ryan Seacrest was aired on Sunday mornings, but was dropped with the station's shift in direction towards a modern rock-based playlist in 2005 (WKKF would later pick it up).

WGFB

By 2002 WGFB moved back to soft AC adding such artists as Natalie Cole Kenny G Jim Brickman and Celine Dion back into their playlist.

WKZL

The playlist was built around well-known stadium artists such as Pink Floyd, The Who, and Led Zeppelin along with Southern Rock favorites Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Allman Brothers Band, and Molly Hatchet.

WMMM-FM

Project M - an annual reality-style competition featuring local artists; the champion sees one of their songs added to the station playlist and receives the opportunity to open for an Atlantic Records artist in concert.

WRQN

WRQN now advertises themselves as "Feel Good Favorites" and removed most 1960's hits from their playlist and added 1980's pop music hits to the playlist including hits from George Michael, Prince, Soft Cell, Michael Jackson, Heart (band), Level 42, Mr. Mister and many others.

WRRM

In recent years, Warm 98 has dropped the soft 70s songs of The Carpenters and John Denver from its playlist, and is more contemporary playing soft rock songs from artists such as Billy Joel, Journey, Elton John, Sheryl Crow, and Rod Stewart.

WXPN-HD2

The slogan used to be :"NO RAP, no hard stuff, and no sleepy elevator music. Just the best songs on the radio. Y100..." There were some alternative songs at the time, but the playlist was overshadowed by many other songs from Ace of Base, U2, Stereo MCs ("Connected"), and Haddaway ("What Is Love").

WZHT

In 2009, WZHT started to include rhythmic top 40 tracks in their playlist from the likes of Lady Gaga, Kesha, Justin Bieber, and Jason Derulo.


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