Playlist Update: My Favorite Songs of 2026 (So Far)

I share my favorite tracks that have dropped this calendar year.

We’re barely two months in, and I’ve already burned through more new music than I did last year. Though you wouldn’t necessarily have known the difference, because I did a poor job updating my playlist infrastructure for subscribers in 2025.

But, after a recent overhaul to how and when I share playlists with this community, I’m confident that won’t happen again this year.

I’ve built a new shortlist of my favorite songs released so far in 2026. It includes everything that’s really stuck with me so far, pulled from wherever it showed up. No genre filter, no theme. Just the songs I’ve been vibing to on the regular.

It’s live now for paid subscribers.

While you’re in there, the paid library has been growing.

You’ve got themes including:

• “Walking Around a City Alone After Midnight”

• “Songs That Sound Like You’re Rethinking Your Entire Life”

• “The Greatest Opening 30 Seconds in Music History”

• Film scores built for writing sprints

• Rhodes piano deep cuts

• GOAT bass grooves

• GOAT drum intros

• A heist playlist that isn’t technically a heist playlist

Free subscribers aren’t left out. The library there has the 2025 favorites list, 80s funk, New Jack Swing, yacht rock, disco, and funk 12” gems, soft rock sing-alongs, late-night jazz, and more.

Dozens of playlists, all free, all waiting.

But the 2026 list stays paid-only for now. If you want in before it opens up wider, the subscribe button is ready for you.