playlistn.1
/ˈpleɪlɪst/, U.S. /ˈpleɪˌlɪst/ A list of theatrical plays to be performed.
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playlisting1977
1915 Mod. Philol. 13 242 There is..no contemporary allusion to this play, and apart from certain inaccurate references in Langbaine and the old play lists, it was apparently lost to sight till rediscovered by Collier.
1962 Times 23 Jan. 13/3 The classical play-list consists of Ruy Blas,..Amphitryon, and L'Homme à la Main de Fer.
2003 Palm Beach (Florida) Post (Nexis) 2 Nov. 12 Popular theater's play list includes classics, revivals and off-Broadway hits.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
playlistn.2
/ˈpleɪlɪst/, U.S. /ˈpleɪˌlɪst/ A list of songs or pieces of music to be played; spec. a list of the musical tracks to be broadcast by a radio station over a given period.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > list to be broadcast
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1962 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman 2 Sept. (Show World section) 5/5 Designed to include more of the good music that doesn't find its way onto a limited-to-top-number lists, the playlist has been expanded to a minimum of 115 different discs per week.
1974 Sunday People 12 May 7/8 The five listen to the new releases and compile a playlist—Radio One's top 50 plus the best of those new records—which D.J.s work from for the week.
1988 Arena Autumn–Winter 163/1 Those first generation rock and rollers..would turn on the radio only to find that Perry Como and Bobby Darin were still on the playlist.
1990 Compact Disc 7 Aug. 19/2 (advt.) Our CD changer accommodates multiple discs, and lets you program a playlist in seconds and listen all day.
2004 Entertainment Weekly 5 Nov. 80 John Peel, who died of a heart attack, Oct. 25,..was arguably the last of a dying breed—a disc jockey who spun only the music he liked, playlists be damned.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
playlistv.
/ˈpleɪlɪst/, U.S. /ˈpleɪˌlɪst/ transitive. To place (a song, album, etc.) on a radio playlist.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > make recording [verb (transitive)] > place (record) on play list
playlist1979
1979 Maclean's 22 Jan. 5/1 Most of the concerts are sellouts, the album is ‘playlisted’ on all of the country's FM radio stations.
1988 Now (Toronto) 14 Apr. 29/1 Hoarse Opera has..been playlisted on college and alternative radio stations across Canada.
2003 Snoop Apr. 88/1 Trickbaby's experimental debut single Indi-Yarn reached number 46 in the British national charts, and takes credit for being the first Hindi language single to be playlisted at Radio One.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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