How to Create a Google Play Music Playlist on Android

Written by Nicole Levine, MFA

This wikiHow teaches you how to create a playlist and add songs in the Google Music app for Android.

This article has been marked as historical.

Google Play Music was integrated with YouTube Music and discontinued in late 2020. (Posted 2020-10-18).

Steps

It’s the icon with headphones labeled “Play Music” typically found in the app drawer.
It’s at the top-left corner of the screen.

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Tap SONGS. It’s one of the options near the top of the screen. A list of songs in your library will appear.
- If you don’t have any songs in your library, tap the magnifying glass icon at the top-right corner of the screen to search for a song.
A list of playlists (if any exist) will appear.
This name is how the playlist will appear in Google Music.
This can help you identify the playlist of you create others.
The playlist is now live. It contains one song.
You can return to the SONGS section or enter some search terms.
A list of playlists will appear.
The song is added to the playlist. You can continue adding songs to the playlist using this method.

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