Aref just passed Farhad Mehrad
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now #15 on the chart
Aref and Farhad Mehrad have swapped places, 679 apart. The measurement covers the last 104 days of readings. Aref sits 15th of 63 artists in the genre. Most artists in this genre sit around 67,093 monthly listeners. The next reading will say whether this is a spike or a shift.
Aref has moved ahead of Farhad Mehrad on FarsiChart’s monthly listener ranking. No day in FarsiChart’s 104-day tracking window has produced a higher figure than the 131,777 monthly listeners read on 4 September 2026.
How the numbers moved
The past seven days added 6,820 monthly listeners, a gain of 5.5%. Meanwhile, the month-long picture: 2,587 listeners added, up 2%. Only 9 Persian traditional artists added more listeners over the same seven days. Alongside that, the listener count has risen on each of the last 5 days.
The follower count added 5,737 in a month, a 3% rise to 195,411. But seven days ago the reading was 124,957, 6,820 below where it stands now. Against that, the monthly high is 131,777 and the low 124,957 — 6,820 listeners apart. Thirty days back the figure was 129,190 — a move of 2,587 since.
The strongest single day in that month was 4 September 2026, worth 2,062 listeners. Thirty days of RadioJavan listening added 1.0M plays to a total of 302.0M. Seven days added 1,624 Spotify followers. The longest unbroken run of daily gains in the 104 days on file is 17 days.
The count rose on 12 of the last 30 daily readings.
Where the chart stands
Aref has climbed to 15th on the FarsiChart Persian traditional chart, from 17th a week ago. 679 monthly listeners separated Aref from Farhad Mehrad on the day the order changed. Ranked by monthly listeners, that is 15th among 63 Persian traditional artists. 2,776 monthly listeners separate this reading from Faramarz Assef, the artist one rank higher.
Moein leads the Persian traditional chart with 310,093 monthly listeners. That leaves 178,316 listeners to make up on Moein. Against a chart median of 67,093, that is 96.4% ahead of the typical tracked Persian traditional artist. But the nearest artist below is Farhad Mehrad, 679 monthly listeners back.
Every tracked Persian traditional artist together holds 5.6M monthly listeners, and 2.34% of them are here.
The catalogue
Plays for “Ki Behtar Az To” now stand at 65.8M. The tracked catalogue runs deep: 227 Aref songs on FarsiChart, 290.1M plays between them. The split is 14.6M plays on Spotify against 275.5M on RadioJavan. RadioJavan has logged 302.0M plays across all of the artist's music it hosts, which reaches wider than the songs indexed here.
51.7 years separate the earliest indexed release, on 1 January 1975, from today. On Spotify the follower total is 195,411. 1 of those 227 tracked songs carry a release date inside the last twelve months. Spread over 227 songs, the catalogue averages 1.3M plays each.
The figures come from 104 daily readings, the most recent taken on 4 September 2026. The two figures measure different things — 131,777 is a Spotify monthly count, 290.1M is the running play total on both platforms.
Right now: 131,777 monthly Spotify listeners
