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GET /v2/plays/3636500/?format=api
HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS
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{
    "id": 3636500,
    "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3636500/?format=api",
    "airdate": "2026-04-01T15:41:37-07:00",
    "show": 66338,
    "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66338/?format=api",
    "image_uri": "https://ia600904.us.archive.org/2/items/mbid-544ba81e-cfa9-4a3b-87b7-6b5b6845dc10/mbid-544ba81e-cfa9-4a3b-87b7-6b5b6845dc10-21677659092_thumb500.jpg",
    "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn711207.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-544ba81e-cfa9-4a3b-87b7-6b5b6845dc10/mbid-544ba81e-cfa9-4a3b-87b7-6b5b6845dc10-21677659092_thumb250.jpg",
    "song": "Major Tom (Coming Home)",
    "track_id": "a226c8b1-e758-36ef-a953-7f2a103e9e21",
    "recording_id": "ea402d44-874b-460d-94e8-3b54b1c6de16",
    "artist": "Peter Schilling",
    "artist_ids": [
        "bc6be178-3933-44ad-88a7-fde1a160bc29"
    ],
    "album": "Living in Oblivion: The 80’s Greatest Hits, Volume 5",
    "release_id": "544ba81e-cfa9-4a3b-87b7-6b5b6845dc10",
    "release_group_id": "9a7c8c1a-4193-3b9c-84ba-f7dfb3bbf9f0",
    "labels": [
        "EMI"
    ],
    "label_ids": [
        "c029628b-6633-439e-bcee-ed02e8a338f7"
    ],
    "release_date": "1995-04-04",
    "rotation_status": null,
    "is_local": false,
    "is_request": false,
    "is_live": false,
    "comment": "This is a sequel to a song by another artist. It's a follow-up to David Bowie's 1969 song \"Space Oddity,\" and continues the story of Major Tom, an astronaut who cuts off communication with Earth and floats into space.\n--\nSchilling is from Germany, where his German-language version of this song (\"Major Tom (Völlig Losgelöst)\") was a huge hit, going to #1. ",
    "location": 1,
    "location_name": "Default",
    "play_type": "trackplay"
}