Aref just passed Leila Forouhar
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Aref and Leila Forouhar have swapped places, 14 apart. It is a 227-track catalogue. 196,154 people follow the artist on Spotify. The thirty-day range is 124,957 to 138,581 monthly listeners. 51 years in, the catalogue is still adding.
Leila Forouhar has given up ground to Aref on the monthly listener count FarsiChart ranks by. No day in FarsiChart’s 108-day tracking window has produced a higher figure than the 138,581 monthly listeners read on 8 September 2026.
How the numbers moved
That is the 2nd-biggest weekly gain among the 76 artists FarsiChart tracks in Persian traditional. Alongside that, seven days brought 10,684 additional monthly listeners, an 8.4% rise. On the same measure, each of the last 9 daily readings has come in higher than the one before it. Over the last month monthly listeners are up 8.5%, a gain of 10,893.
Spotify followers grew by 5,985 over the same 30 days, up 3.1%. The starting point seven days back was 127,897, a difference of 10,684. Inside the last 30 days the count ran between 124,957 and 138,581, a spread of 13,624. A month ago the reading stood at 127,688, 10,893 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 1,338. Since tracking began, 17 days is the longest the count has climbed without a down day.
Gains showed up on 16 separate days in the last month.
Where the chart stands
Seven days have taken Aref from 17th to 13th among tracked Persian traditional artists. Aref opened a margin of 14 monthly listeners over Leila Forouhar. Out of 76 Persian traditional artists FarsiChart ranks, that is 13th. One place up the chart is Homayoun Shajarian, 3,379 monthly listeners ahead.
At the top of the Persian traditional chart sits Moein, on 315,535 monthly listeners. Catching Moein would take another 176,954 listeners. Against a chart median of 57,991, that is 139% ahead of the typical tracked Persian traditional artist. Against that, a cushion of 14 monthly listeners holds off Leila Forouhar in the place below.
Measured against the whole tracked Persian traditional field — 6.1M monthly listeners — the share works out at 2.29%.
The catalogue
Plays for “Ki Behtar Az To” now stand at 65.9M. 227 songs credited to Aref are tracked here, holding 290.4M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. RadioJavan carries 275.8M of those plays and Spotify 14.6M — 5% of the total is Spotify. On RadioJavan, the lifetime counter across every track it carries by the artist reads 303.0M.
The oldest release on file is dated 1 January 1975, which puts 51.7 years of music in the index. On Spotify the follower total is 196,154. 1 of those 227 tracked songs carry a release date inside the last twelve months. On the same measure, the 227 tracked songs average 1.3M plays apiece.
Every number above comes from FarsiChart’s own daily tracking — 108 readings up to 8 September 2026. The 138,581 monthly listeners is Spotify’s own figure; the 290.4M plays combine Spotify and RadioJavan.
Right now: 138,581 monthly Spotify listeners
