Music and Playlist Guides by DJ Will Gill
Every guide DJ Will Gill has written about music itself lives on this page: which songs mix well together, how to build a playlist that holds a room, how to pick songs for a corporate event, and which streaming services actually work in a DJ booth. Will is the Wall Street Journal’s #1 Corporate DJ and Emcee with more than 2,520 five-star Google reviews, and these are the working notes behind that.
Use it like a table of contents. Each section is ordered from the most complete guide to the quickest read.
Jump to: Songs that mix well together · Playlist building and curation · Song selection for events · Streaming services and DJ apps
Songs that mix well together
How long a mix should run, how many tracks it needs, where to post it, and how to organize your crate so the next blend is already loaded. 10 guides.
Playlist building and curation
How working DJs and music curators build playlists that hold a room, from corporate events to streaming-era discovery. 59 guides.
Reading all of this is the slow way to a good playlist.
Introducing TheAIDJ.com
AIDJ turns a plain-English request into a ready-to-play set, previews it instantly, and exports straight to Spotify. Describe the room, get the songs that fit it.
Song selection for events
Reading the crowd, balancing old and new, and choosing songs that fit the moment instead of the DJ’s taste. 12 guides.
Streaming services and DJ apps
Which services work in a DJ booth, what they cost, how licensing works, and what AI is changing. 21 guides.
Who writes these guides
Every article on this page is written from working sets: corporate conferences, sales kickoffs, galas and hybrid events for companies including Google, Amazon, Salesforce, PayPal and Pepsi. The playlist advice is what gets used on stage, not theory.
Will Gill
Wall Street Journal’s #1 Corporate DJ and Emcee, Forbes Next 1000 honoree, 3x Super Bowl DJ, with 2,520+ five-star Google reviews. Founder of TheAIDJ.com, the AI playlist app built from these same working sets.