Here is the One a Day playlist for July 2026. Check out the One a Day playlists for June, May, April, March, February and January.
It’s unusual for me to include an artist more than once in the One a Day playlist since I combine the monthly lists to make the annual list … but I love Melissa Leveaux and Olive Jones and Ellen Mcilwaine enough to bend the rules for them. I also took perverse pleasure putting Billy Joel between Pablo Moses and Junior Murvin … hey, it’s just chronology.
The songs are ordered chronologically from latest to earliest:
The Sha La Das, Stop Using My Love
Foushee, war
Olive Jones, A Woman's Heart
The Lemon Twigs, My Golden Years
Nectar Woode, Good Vibrations
The Innocence Mission, On Your Side
Snoh Aalegra, I Want You Around
Melissa Leveaux, Nan fon bwa
Andrew Bird, Are You Serious
Mazzy Starr, In the Kingdom
Gnarls Barkley, Crazy
The Derek Trucks Band, Volunteered Slavery
Feist, Secret Heart
The Libertines, What Katie Did
Kurt Elling, Orange Blossoms in Summertime
Richard Ashcroft, A Song For The Lovers
Belle and Sebastian, Is It Wicked Not To Care?
Tarkan, Simarik
2Pac, Dear Mama
Massive Attack, Tracey Thorn, Better Things
Francky Vincent, Le jeu des cinq
Pablo Moses, Dubbing Is A Must
Billy Joel, Just the Way You Are
Junior Murvin, Police & Thieves
Ellen Mcilwaine, Higher Ground
Minnie Ripperton, Lovin' You
Smokey Robinson, The Tracks of My Tears
Millie Small, My Boy Lollipop
Nancy Wilson, I Wish You Love
Lorez Alexandria, Nature Boy
The Chordettes, Lollipop