Grace VanderWaal weighs in with some of her contemporary favorites:

check out my @Xfinity Awesome Beats mixtape on @pandoramusic to hear some of my current favvves #sponsored https://t.co/bc4SDvZIBr pic.twitter.com/VzwquqmvV8

— Grace VanderWaal (@GraceVanderWaal) July 23, 2019

The World’s Greatest and No Longer Pint-sized Ventriloquist would like you to know what she’s listening to:

Hey guys! It’s Tuesday and you know what that means, new songs on my @Spotify playlist ‘Darci Lynne’s Favorites’! Follow this link to listen now https://t.co/imqA4R6r00 🥰 pic.twitter.com/u3jXqoLm3V

— Darci Lynne (@ItsDarciLynne) June 18, 2019

Maybe someday Petunia will try some of these.

From Game Changer Indonesia comes this nominally 47-minute mix:

It should keep you moving for, oh, at least half an hour, before things grind suddenly to a halt.

At least, not a minor one:

Songs I’m loving right now 🎶https://t.co/K62TYfJht6

— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) February 5, 2018

What would have been funny, I guess, would be picking a couple dozen of her own tracks. She didn’t do that, though I thought it was hilarious to start the playlist with a song with the same title as one of hers. Let’s face it: if I’m going to be trolled by a gorgeous woman who’s probably a whole lot smarter than I am, first choice has got to be Taylor Swift.

Last time I wandered over to YouTube, I found a playlist labeled as “My Mix.” Surely not my mix?

Of the 50-odd tracks, I’d actually played about two-thirds before. The others — well, I assume they thought I’d be interested, based on other videos viewed. Interestingly, four were by Sly and the Family Stone.

This was the eleventh track proffered, a Robyn Adele Anderson cover of a System of a Down tune:

I’ll have to watch this list in case anything else weird shows up.

Spotify has been compiling a list of the Top 100 Most Streamed Songs of All Time, and updating it on a monthly basis. Here’s the August 2017 list, which will take about 20 minutes of your life:

Even the least popular of these has been streamed over 400 million times.

“Songs for the invisible girl” is a YouTube playlist of 12 songs. (Well, some have been pulled for Stateside consumption.) It begins, almost inevitably, with the Zombies’ immortal “She’s Not There.”

Inevitably, there is a Hamilton “mixtape” already being hawked at the iTunes Store, though formal release will not be until Friday, December 2. A few tracks are already being sold. $14.99 for the whole thing.

Now this seems ingenious. Rebecca Black (yes, that Rebecca Black) has regularly released her Spotify playlists to her not-inconsiderable fanbase; this week, she’s actually put together a video in which she features some of her faves.

The complete playlist, if you’re a Spotify user, is here.

This exercise sounds familiar:

Lots of songs have numbers in their titles: from “5-4-3-2-1” to “99 Luftballons.” But what makes a great “number song”? Music journalist and self-appointed rock numerologist David Klein has spent years researching this very question for his new book If 6 was 9.

It’s a perfectly reasonable list. You may, or may not, want to compare it to the two compilations I’ve already done.