iTunes Essentials: does a purchase create a playlist?

[Zoidberg]

I've happened across a few iTunes essentials lists that I like, and bought a few tunes here and there off of them. If I buy the whole set, are the songs scattered within my iTunes library, or is a playlist created (e.g., "iTunes Essentials: Great Horn Section Funk" or something like that) and populated by my new purchases?

(I got gifted an album from my wife not too long ago, and I wound up with a playlist called "gift from Cynthia" that I didn't create on my own. Just wondering if the same thing applied to whole iTunes Essentials list purchases.)