New release from Aref: "Aref Unplugged"
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Aref has been releasing for 51 years, and “Aref Unplugged” is the newest of it. The figures are as of 18 September 2026. 198,225 people follow the artist on Spotify. The distance to Moein at the top of the genre is 178,926 monthly listeners. The next reading will say whether this is a spike or a shift.
“Aref Unplugged” is less than a day old, released on 18 September 2026. No day in FarsiChart’s 118-day tracking window has produced a higher figure than the 142,406 monthly listeners read on 18 September 2026.
How the numbers moved
Seven days brought 2,525 additional monthly listeners, a 1.8% rise. Alongside that, the month-long picture: 14,156 listeners added, up 11%. That is 3 straight days of growth. Followers are up 3.1% across the month, a gain of 5,929.
A week ago the figure was 139,881; it has moved up 2,525 since. Meanwhile, the monthly high is 142,406 and the low 124,957 — 17,449 listeners apart. Against that, a month ago the reading stood at 128,250, 14,156 lower than now. The strongest single day in that month was 4 September 2026, worth 2,062 listeners.
RadioJavan added 1.0M plays in the past 30 days. The weekly follower change is plus 1,411, against a total of 198,225. Across 118 tracked days the best consecutive run came to 17 days of gains. 18 of the past 30 readings came in above the day before.
Where the chart stands
Out of 93 Persian traditional artists FarsiChart ranks, that is 13th. 40 monthly listeners separate this reading from Homayoun Shajarian, the artist one rank higher. Against that, thirty days ago that chart position was 15th, 2 places lower than today. At the top of the Persian traditional chart sits Moein, on 321,332 monthly listeners.
The distance to Moein is 178,926 monthly listeners. Against a chart median of 47,161, that is 202% ahead of the typical tracked Persian traditional artist. But a cushion of 1,874 monthly listeners holds off Leila Forouhar in the place below. That is 2.18% of the 6.5M monthly listeners the tracked Persian traditional chart holds in total.
The catalogue
“Ki Behtar Az To” has passed 65.9M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. 219 songs credited to Aref are tracked here, holding 290.5M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. The previous dated release came 125 days earlier, on 16 May 2026. Platform by platform: Spotify 14.2M, RadioJavan 276.3M.
On RadioJavan, the lifetime counter across every track it carries by the artist reads 303.0M. FarsiChart's record starts at 1 January 1975 — 51.7 years of releases. 198,225 accounts follow along on Spotify. 2 of those 219 tracked songs carry a release date inside the last twelve months.
Spread over 219 songs, the catalogue averages 1.3M plays each. FarsiChart has logged this artist daily for 118 days; 18 September 2026 is the latest reading. Two sources sit behind those numbers: Spotify for the 142,406 monthly listeners, Spotify and RadioJavan together for the 290.5M plays.
