# Can a playlist be considered a release?

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/can-a-playlist-be-considered-a-release/548919
**Category:** Style
**Tags:** en, digital-media, itunes, playlist, spotify
**Created:** [August 29, 2021, 9:46am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/can-a-playlist-be-considered-a-release/548919 "2021-08-29T09:46:52Z")
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### Author: ![aerozol](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/aerozol/32/116_2.png) [@aerozol](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/aerozol)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2021, 10:21pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/can-a-playlist-be-considered-a-release/548919/46 "2021-10-24T22:21:19Z")

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I’m definitely not saying every playlist is a release! But that artists may use platforms/avenues (and formats etc) not meant to ‘release’ things to release things. And we should store those.

I don’t think you could write a guideline that allows platforms like Bandcamp but disallows anything released using Spotify’s playlist function. Without explicitly mentioning ‘Spotify Playlist’. If you have to explicitly disallow a channel then it’s not good criteria imo.

A broader guideline like “we don’t allow digital releases that regularly change” I think is perfectly reasonable.

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