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Welcome to Top Ten Playlists. Your online source for the best playlist ideas for any occasion.

Roadtrips. Festivals. Special events. Working out. Weddings. Whatever.

Here at Top Ten Playlist we aim to rejuvenate the art of mixtape compilation. Essayist Geoffrey O’Brien has called the personal mixtape “the most widely practiced American art form”. Through careful selection and ordering of the tracks, often linked by theme or mood, playlist enthusiasts can form an artistic statement that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.

“To me, making a tape is like writing a letter. There’s a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again. A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You’ve got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention, and then you’ve got to up it a notch, or cool it a notch, and you can’t have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you’ve done the whole thing in pairs and…oh, there are loads of rules.”

Rob Fleming, High Fidelity