Playdata charts was a weekly airplay chart, measuring songs being played on the radio, and television stations in Nigeria,[1] and published on its website, with data gathered from its proprietary PlayData Broadcast Monitoring service.
Playdata was founded in 2015 by eLDee, and Kingsley Offor, as a cloud-based broadcast monitoring software.
[5] Kingsley Offor who became the first CEO of Playdata was succeeded by eLDee, on 20 January 2016, after he retired as a musician.
[6] In February 2016, at the Future of Music in Africa at Social Media Week Lagos, eLDee shares demo insight about Playdata and shows artists statistics of how many times their music is played on radio stations, during the presentation.
[8] In 2018, Playdata was defunct shortly after publishing its second edition of the Year-end chart of 2017, titled Top 40 songs on Nigerian radio,[9] in the week of January 1, 2018, led by Davido "If".