New release from Shahyad: "BARZAKH"
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27 years and 103 tracks later, Shahyad has “BARZAKH” out. FarsiChart has been tracking this daily for 115 days. Shahyad takes 0.3% of all monthly listening on the Classical chart. That is against a high of 19,832 reached on 11 September 2026. Followers rising while listening falls usually means an audience that stayed but played less.
Released on 14 September 2026, “BARZAKH” has been out one day. Shahyad is running 152 listeners short of the 19,832 peak set on 11 September 2026.
How the numbers moved
The past seven days cost 53 monthly listeners, down 0.3%. But thirty days of tracking show 2,887 more monthly listeners, a 17.2% rise. Spotify followers grew by 132 over the same 30 days, up 0.6%. Against that, a week ago the figure was 19,733; it has moved down 53 since.
Inside the last 30 days the count ran between 16,793 and 19,832, a spread of 3,039. A month ago the reading stood at 16,793, 2,887 lower than now. The strongest single day in that month was 24 August 2026, worth 595 listeners. Thirty days of RadioJavan listening added 300,000 plays to a total of 30.6M.
The longest unbroken run of daily gains in the 115 days on file is 5 days. Meanwhile, gains showed up on 17 separate days in the last month.
Where the chart stands
Seven days ago the position was 56th on the Persian traditional chart; it now sits 60th. Ranked by monthly listeners, that is 60th among 93 Persian traditional artists. Closing on Kayhan Kalhor means finding 235 monthly listeners. Moein leads the Persian traditional chart with 319,161 monthly listeners.
Catching Moein would take another 299,481 listeners. Against a chart median of 44,309, that is 55.6% behind the typical tracked Persian traditional artist. The nearest artist below is Salar Aghili, 132 monthly listeners back. Measured against the whole tracked Persian traditional field — 6.5M monthly listeners — the share works out at 0.30%.
The catalogue
“Delbar” has passed 4.8M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. The tracked catalogue runs deep: 103 Shahyad songs on FarsiChart, 27.7M plays between them. The previous release on file is dated 30 July 2026, 46 days earlier. 5.5% of the catalogue's plays come from Spotify, the rest from RadioJavan.
RadioJavan has logged 30.6M 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 1999 — 27.7 years of releases. On Spotify the follower total is 22,505. 2 of those 103 tracked songs carry a release date inside the last twelve months.
Spread over 103 songs, the catalogue averages 268,736 plays each. The figures come from 115 daily readings, the most recent taken on 15 September 2026. The 19,680 monthly listeners is Spotify’s own figure; the 27.7M plays combine Spotify and RadioJavan.
