YouTube Music rolls out playlist improvements including Assistive playlists, Collaborative playlists and an improved Mixed For You section. The new features include:
Assistive playlists
YouTube Music will suggest relevant songs to add to your playlists based on signals such as playlist name, existing songs in the playlist, and user listening history. You will see up to seven suggestions when editing a playlist. If you want additional suggestions, you can hit the Refresh button to see more.
Collaborative playlists
This feature allows you to create and share playlists with other YouTube Music users. Similar to the collaboration experience on YouTube, all collaborators on a playlist can easily share, sort, add to and edit the playlist. Adding collaborators to your playlist is easy:
- Tap the pencil icon to Edit playlist
- Select Collaborate
- Select Collaborators can add songs and videos
- Invite collaborators to your playlist by sharing the link
Information about what playlists your friends and fellow YouTube Music users have created can be found on profile page playlists. You can easily browse other listeners’ public music playlists and uploaded music videos from their profile page on YouTube Music. This allows you to further browse collections from people whose musical taste you like and want to hear more from. Finding a user’s profile page is simple – just click on the playlist creator’s username on the playlist page.
Personalised playlists
The Mixed for You section in the YouTube Music home feed provides personalised playlists based on your listening history. These playlists not only include official audio tracks, but also deep cuts and remixes of your favourite songs. The Mixed for you shelf includes:
Discover mix: Features new artists or songs that YouTube Music thinks you’ll love and is updated weekly. Expect to find your next favourite artist on this playlist.
New release mix: The most recent releases from your favourite artists and other similar artists.
Your mix: Continuously updated, Your Mix is the fastest way to start listening to your favourite music, with a few fun recommendations based on your listening habits.
Liked songs: If you click like on a song, YouTube Music will add to this playlist where you can find all of your favourite songs.
Mood & Genre playlists
In the Explore tab, you’ll find thousands of programmed playlists to match nearly any mood. From Chill to Focus, programmed playlists pull in music from across YouTube’s expansive catalogue to give you the right mood for the moment. There are also specially branded genre playlists that feature some of your favourite artists across YouTube.
Some of the latest and greatest genre playlists:
- The Hit List: home for today’s biggest hits
- RELEASED: the hottest new tracks of the week, served up fresh every Friday.
- On Everything: the most current and popular tracks in Hip-Hop.
- Al Millón: home of the top tracks in Latin music every week.
- Country Hotlist: the one-stop shop for today’s biggest Country hits.
The YouTube Music app can be downloaded in the Play Store or App Store.
