Aref just passed Homayoun Shajarian
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now #12 on the chart
Aref took the place Homayoun Shajarian held, with 2,079 to spare. Aref has been releasing music for 51 years. 219 tracks make up the catalogue it belongs to. RadioJavan plays across the whole catalogue rose 0.3% in thirty days. Only 19 days in thirty moved upward, which is what makes this one stand out.
A place has changed hands on FarsiChart: Aref has gone above Homayoun Shajarian. The 144,044 monthly listeners logged on 19 September 2026 is the highest reading across 119 days of tracking.
How the numbers moved
Seven days brought 3,949 additional monthly listeners, a 2.8% rise. Alongside that, the month-long picture: 16,105 listeners added, up 12.6%. Meanwhile, the listener count has risen on each of the last 4 days. Against that, thirty days brought 5,933 new Spotify followers, taking the total to 198,440.
Seven days ago the reading was 140,095, 3,949 below where it stands now. Over 30 days the reading swung 19,087 listeners, from 124,957 at its lowest to 144,044 at its highest. A month ago the reading stood at 127,939, 16,105 lower than now. But the biggest daily jump of the month landed on 4 September 2026 — 2,062 listeners in 24 hours.
RadioJavan added 1.0M plays in the past 30 days. The weekly follower change is plus 1,422, against a total of 198,440. Across 119 tracked days the best consecutive run came to 17 days of gains. Gains showed up on 19 separate days in the last month.
Where the chart stands
Seven days have taken Aref from 13th to 12th among tracked Persian traditional artists. The gap between Aref and Homayoun Shajarian at the moment of the pass was 2,079 monthly listeners. Ranked by monthly listeners, that is 12th among 93 Persian traditional artists. The next position belongs to Viguen, and the gap to it is 20,037 monthly listeners.
At the top of the Persian traditional chart sits Moein, on 323,338 monthly listeners. Catching Moein would take another 179,294 listeners. Half the tracked Persian traditional artists are above 47,719 monthly listeners and half below; this reading is 201.9% over that line. On the same measure, one rank down sits Homayoun Shajarian, trailing by 2,079 monthly listeners.
Measured against the whole tracked Persian traditional field — 6.5M monthly listeners — the share works out at 2.20%.
The catalogue
The catalogue’s biggest track, “Ki Behtar Az To”, sits on 65.9M plays. The tracked catalogue runs deep: 219 Aref songs on FarsiChart, 290.5M plays between them. Platform by platform: Spotify 14.2M, RadioJavan 276.4M. RadioJavan has logged 303.0M plays across all of the artist's music it hosts, which reaches wider than the songs indexed here.
FarsiChart's record starts at 1 January 1975 — 51.7 years of releases. Against that, the Spotify follower count stands at 198,440. 2 of those 219 tracked songs carry a release date inside the last twelve months. On the same measure, that works out at an average of 1.3M plays a song across the 219 tracked.
Every number above comes from FarsiChart’s own daily tracking — 119 readings up to 19 September 2026. But two sources sit behind those numbers: Spotify for the 144,044 monthly listeners, Spotify and RadioJavan together for the 290.5M plays.
Right now: 144,044 monthly Spotify listeners
