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September 29, 2025
Build excitement for your tour with Set Lists
Set List playlists bring new awareness to your live shows and boost engagement with your fans. Check out how some bands and labels are using Set Lists, discover best practices for setting up a Set List playlist, and learn how they’ve helped expand their audience engagement.
Fans love Set List playlists.
In fact, Set List playlists get even more engagement on Apple Music than an artist or band’s album on their concert day.
2x
deeper engagement than the latest album.
3.5x
deeper engagement than catalog albums.
500%
spike in plays on concert day.
“We are big fans of Apple Music’s Set List playlist. It’s quickly become a top playlist source, and a unique experience for fans to listen to songs from Riley’s catalog in the order that they’re performed live on tour."
Big Machine Label Group chair Scott Borchetta on Riley Green
Green, Borchetta, and Nashville Harbor Records & Entertainment president/CEO Jimmy Harnen
Use your Set List playlist in different ways.
Whatever your goal, Set List playlists allow for a meaningful connection with your fans. Use them to build excitement for an upcoming tour, or to revisit a memorable show or special performance.
Learn how to share your Set List playlist
The Marías' submarine (extended) tour Set List has proven to be the go-to landing page for fans to re-live the tour that they loved so much! It has become one of the top sources of organic streams for the tracks that are featured."
Drew Maniscalco, Atlantic Records EVP of Streaming and Sales
Best practices: Four steps to playlist success.
Make it stand out with a fresh artist image.
Keep your tour dates up to date for fans.
Link to your shows across Apple and Shazam.
Promote your shows on your social channels.