How do I add a YouTube song to my playlist?

Theres nothing like the perfect playlist! Playlists are where we discover new music, create personal libraries of our most cherished songs, and share favorites with our friends. Every song captures a mood or moment in time, providing the perfect soundtrack to your everyday life. We understand the importance of this experience and weve been working hard to enhance the ways you engage with playlists on YouTube Music.

Whether youre new to YouTube Music, a seasoned playlist-maker, or a music discovery veteran, were excited to share some of the newest ways to embrace and make the most of playlists on YouTube Music:

Creating your own playlists? Try our new product features

Assistive playlists

Sometimes you have a great playlist idea in mind, but dont know what songs to add. With the new assistive playlist feature, we will suggest relevant songs 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. Whether your playlist has a few tracks or even just a name, weve got you covered.

Collaborative playlists

The only thing better than building a playlist is building one with friends, so weve added a collaborative feature that 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:

1. Tap the pencil icon to Edit playlist

2. Select Collaborate

3. Select Collaborators can add songs and videos

4. Invite collaborators to your playlist by sharing the link

Curious about what playlists your friends and fellow YouTube Music users have created? Take a look at profile page playlists

If youre looking for inspiration from other music fans with similar taste, youre in luck! Now 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 users profile page is simple just click on the playlist creators username on the playlist page.

Dont feel like making your own playlist? Weve got a few personalized playlists mixed just for you

The Mixed for You section in the YouTube Music home feed provides you with amazing playlists that we created with only you in mind. Based on your listening history, these playlists not only include official audio tracks, but also deep cuts and remixes of your favorite songs. The Mixed for you shelf includes:

• Discover mix: Features new artists or songs that we think youll love and updated weekly. Expect to find your next favorite artist on this playlist.

• New release mix: The most recent releases from your favorite artists and other similar artists.

• Your mix: Continuously updated, Your Mix is the fastest way to start listening to your favorite music, with a few fun recommendations based on your listening habits.

• Liked songs: If you click like on a song, well add to this playlist where you can find all of your favorite songs.

Have a mood or genre in mind? Weve got programmed Mood & Genre playlists for that

In the Explore tab, youll find thousands of programmed playlists to match nearly any mood. From Chill to Focus, our programmed playlists pull in music from across YouTubes expansive catalog to give you the right mood for the moment.

We also offer specially branded genre playlists that feature some of your favorite artists across YouTube.

Get started with some of our latest and greatest genre playlists:

• The Hit List:home for todays 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 todays biggest Country hits.

If you dont already have YouTube Music, download the YouTube Music app in the Play Store or App Store.

Happy listening, playlist-creating and sharing!