Ashkan Kagan just passed Erfan
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now #10 on the chart
The two are almost level. Ashkan Kagan holds a 591-listener lead over Erfan. Ashkan Kagan has 203 tracks on record. The artist page shows 185,767 monthly listeners. The artist’s peak was 198,285 monthly listeners, on 3 July 2026. The longest unbroken run of gains this month was 17 days.
Ashkan Kagan has moved ahead of Erfan on FarsiChart’s monthly listener ranking. Only 9 Persian rap artists on FarsiChart carry more monthly listeners than Ashkan Kagan.
How the numbers moved
Seven days brought 2,833 additional monthly listeners, a 1.5% rise. Meanwhile, the last reading at or above 185,767 monthly listeners came on 7 August 2026. Over thirty days the direction is down: 5,189 monthly listeners lost, off 2.7%. That is 4 straight days of growth.
The follower count added 4,473 in a month, a 2.3% rise to 201,796. The starting point seven days back was 182,934, a difference of 2,833. The monthly high is 190,956 and the low 181,300 — 9,656 listeners apart. Thirty days back the figure was 190,956 — a move of 5,189 since.
The strongest single day in that month was 31 August 2026, worth 994 listeners. For context, the high point of the tracking window remains 198,285 on 3 July 2026, 12,518 above where the count sits now. The weekly follower change is plus 1,116, against a total of 201,796. Since tracking began, 17 days is the longest the count has climbed without a down day.
The count rose on 13 of the last 30 daily readings.
Where the chart stands
Erfan stood on 184,251 monthly listeners when Ashkan Kagan moved ahead, a margin of 591. Meanwhile, one place up the chart is Saaren, 36,132 monthly listeners ahead. The Persian rap leader is Arta, on 291,393 monthly listeners. Catching Arta would take another 105,626 listeners.
Seven days on, the place on the Persian rap chart is still 10th. For context, the median tracked Persian rap artist sits on 55,935 monthly listeners, so this count runs 232.1% above the middle of the chart. But a cushion of 1,580 monthly listeners holds off Erfan in the place below. Every tracked Persian rap artist together holds 8.7M monthly listeners, and 2.13% of them are here.
The catalogue
Plays for “Damn Things” now stand at 5.3M. 203 songs credited to Ashkan Kagan are tracked here, holding 129.9M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. 96.6% of the catalogue's plays come from Spotify, the rest from RadioJavan. 201,796 accounts follow along on Spotify.
The last twelve months account for 48 of the 203 tracked releases. For context, that works out at an average of 639,940 plays a song across the 203 tracked. The figures come from 102 daily readings, the most recent taken on 2 September 2026. Two sources sit behind those numbers: Spotify for the 185,767 monthly listeners, Spotify and RadioJavan together for the 129.9M plays.
Right now: 184,842 monthly Spotify listeners
