Behzad Leito just passed Mansour
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passed Mansour to reach #10
It is a narrow pass: Behzad Leito leads Mansour by 721. Behzad Leito has been releasing music for 14 years. 621,265 people follow the artist on Spotify. Arta leads the genre on 280,356 monthly listeners, 32,567 ahead. It is close enough to the names above that a single week could reorder them.
A place has changed hands on FarsiChart: Behzad Leito has gone above Mansour. Behzad Leito holds a top-ten place on the Persian rap chart, 3rd of 111.
How the numbers moved
Measured over thirty days rather than seven, the drop is 6.7%, or 17,723 listeners. Against that, the listener count has risen on each of the last 6 days. But thirty days brought 7,489 new Spotify followers, taking the total to 621,265. A week ago the figure was 245,649; it has moved up 2,140 since.
Over 30 days the reading swung 20,158 listeners, from 245,354 at its lowest to 265,512 at its highest. Thirty days back the figure was 265,512 — a move of 17,723 since. The biggest daily jump of the month landed on 18 August 2026 — 881 listeners in 24 hours. Set against the 6 July 2026 high of 271,035, the count is 23,246 lower.
The weekly follower change is plus 1,966, against a total of 621,265. The seven-day change is small — 2,140 listeners up, 0.9%. Since tracking began, 17 days is the longest the count has climbed without a down day. The count rose on 7 of the last 30 daily readings.
Where the chart stands
Mansour stood on 247,068 monthly listeners when Behzad Leito moved ahead, a margin of 721. Alongside that, one place up the chart is Koorosh, 19,566 monthly listeners ahead. Arta leads the Persian rap chart with 280,356 monthly listeners. Catching Arta would take another 32,567 listeners.
No change in rank over the week: 3rd on the Persian rap chart. Against a chart median of 55,557, that is 346% ahead of the typical tracked Persian rap artist. Against that, a cushion of 3,066 monthly listeners holds off Amir Tataloo in the place below. That is 3.04% of the 8.1M monthly listeners the tracked Persian rap chart holds in total.
The catalogue
The catalogue’s biggest track, “Business”, sits on 57.6M plays. FarsiChart indexes 135 Behzad Leito songs, a catalogue of 870.5M plays. 621,265 Spotify accounts follow the profile. The split is 95.9M plays on Spotify against 774.6M on RadioJavan.
RadioJavan has logged 2.39B plays across all of the artist's music it hosts, which reaches wider than the songs indexed here. FarsiChart's record starts at 25 July 2012 — 14.1 years of releases. Of the 135 songs on file, 15 are dated within the past year. Spread over 135 songs, the catalogue averages 6.4M plays each.
Every number above comes from FarsiChart’s own daily tracking — 87 readings up to 18 August 2026. The two figures measure different things — 247,789 is a Spotify monthly count, 870.5M is the running play total on both platforms.
Right now: 247,789 monthly Spotify listeners
