Q. Does CMOS have any suggestions for how to format the title of a playlist? Should it be put in quotes? Thank you!
A. Though CMOS doesn’t currently cover this topic, the title of a playlist can usually be placed in quotation marks (and capitalized in title case): “Copyeditor’s Baroque 1”; “Favorite Rarities”; “Walking Mix Fast.”
Though playlists are like albums (whose titles are italicized in Chicago style, as in Kind of Blue), they aren’t formally published like albums are, something italics might suggest. CMOS makes a similar distinction for the titles of theses and dissertations relative to published books; see CMOS 14.113.