Aref just passed Faramarz Assef
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now #14 on the chart
Aref passed Faramarz Assef this week by 2,035 monthly listeners. It is a 227-track catalogue. The artist page shows 135,007 monthly listeners. That is against a high of 135,007 reached on 6 September 2026. Followers rising while listening falls usually means an audience that stayed but played less.
Faramarz Assef has given up ground to Aref on the monthly listener count FarsiChart ranks by. No day in FarsiChart’s 106-day tracking window has produced a higher figure than the 135,007 monthly listeners read on 6 September 2026.
How the numbers moved
On the Persian traditional chart, 76 artists deep, 2 posted a larger seven-day gain. Monthly listeners climbed by 9,733 over the week, worth 7.8%. That is 7 days in a row of gains, with no down day in between. Across thirty days the gain is 6,321 monthly listeners, or 4.9%.
Spotify followers grew by 5,848 over the same 30 days, up 3.1%. But seven days ago the reading was 125,274, 9,733 below where it stands now. Over 30 days the reading swung 10,050 listeners, from 124,957 at its lowest to 135,007 at its highest. A month ago the reading stood at 128,686, 6,321 lower than now.
The biggest daily jump of the month landed on 4 September 2026 — 2,062 listeners in 24 hours. Meanwhile, thirty days of RadioJavan listening added 2.0M plays to a total of 303.0M. Across the last seven days the Spotify following moved up 1,542. Since tracking began, 17 days is the longest the count has climbed without a down day.
The count rose on 14 of the last 30 daily readings.
Where the chart stands
Seven days have taken Aref from 17th to 14th among tracked Persian traditional artists. Aref opened a margin of 2,035 monthly listeners over Faramarz Assef. Out of 76 Persian traditional artists FarsiChart ranks, that is 14th. 2,647 monthly listeners separate this reading from Leila Forouhar, the artist one rank higher.
Moein leads the Persian traditional chart with 312,935 monthly listeners. That leaves 177,928 listeners to make up on Moein. Half the tracked Persian traditional artists are above 57,533 monthly listeners and half below; this reading is 134.7% over that line. The nearest artist below is Habib, 1,999 monthly listeners back.
That is 2.25% of the 6.0M monthly listeners the tracked Persian traditional chart holds in total.
The catalogue
Plays for “Ki Behtar Az To” now stand at 65.9M. The tracked catalogue runs deep: 227 Aref songs on FarsiChart, 290.3M plays between them. 5% of the catalogue's plays come from Spotify, the rest from RadioJavan. RadioJavan's own counter, spanning every track it hosts by the artist, stands at 303.0M plays.
The oldest release on file is dated 1 January 1975, which puts 51.7 years of music in the index. The Spotify follower count stands at 195,765. 1 of those 227 tracked songs carry a release date inside the last twelve months. For context, the 227 tracked songs average 1.3M plays apiece.
Every number above comes from FarsiChart’s own daily tracking — 106 readings up to 6 September 2026. But two sources sit behind those numbers: Spotify for the 135,007 monthly listeners, Spotify and RadioJavan together for the 290.3M plays.
Right now: 135,007 monthly Spotify listeners
