Black Cats just passed TM Bax
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passed TM Bax to reach #9
TM Bax drops a place as Black Cats moves up. This is a 34-year career reading, not a snapshot. The artist page shows 191,236 monthly listeners. That is against a high of 191,236 reached on 19 August 2026. Followers rising while listening falls usually means an audience that stayed but played less.
Persian pop artist Black Cats has overtaken TM Bax on FarsiChart. Monthly Spotify listeners reached 191,236 on 19 August 2026 — the highest figure in the 88 days FarsiChart has been tracking.
How the numbers moved
That is 4,970 more monthly listeners than a week ago, up 2.7%. For context, each of the last 8 daily readings has come in higher than the one before it. Over the last month monthly listeners are up 4%, a gain of 7,420. Measured on weekly gain alone, the week places 7th out of 108 in Persian pop.
Followers are up 1.7% across the month, a gain of 1,007. Meanwhile, a week ago the figure was 186,266; it has moved up 4,970 since. Inside the last 30 days the count ran between 183,297 and 191,236, a spread of 7,939. Thirty days back the figure was 183,816 — a move of 7,420 since.
The biggest daily jump of the month landed on 16 August 2026 — 1,281 listeners in 24 hours. Across the last seven days the Spotify following moved up 229. Alongside that, the longest unbroken run of daily gains in the 88 days on file is 17 days. 20 of the past 30 readings came in above the day before.
Where the chart stands
On the Persian pop chart the ranking has gone from 10th a week ago to 9th today. Black Cats holds a top-ten place on the Persian pop chart, 9th of 108. The gap between Black Cats and TM Bax at the moment of the pass was 27,587 monthly listeners. 18,749 monthly listeners separate this reading from Shadmehr Aghili, the artist one rank higher.
The Persian pop leader is Arash, on 15,422,710 monthly listeners. That leaves 15,231,474 listeners to make up on Arash. Half the tracked Persian pop artists are above 62,918 monthly listeners and half below; this reading is 203.9% over that line. For context, one rank down sits Behnam Bani, trailing by 407 monthly listeners.
Every tracked Persian pop artist together holds 24.1M monthly listeners, and 0.79% of them are here.
The catalogue
“Dafi Joon” has passed 38.2M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. 66 songs credited to Black Cats are tracked here, holding 213.1M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. Roughly one monthly listener in 3 has hit follow on Spotify. RadioJavan carries 178.6M of those plays and Spotify 34.4M — 16.2% of the total is Spotify.
RadioJavan's own counter, spanning every track it hosts by the artist, stands at 207.0M plays. 34.6 years separate the earliest indexed release, on 1 January 1992, from today. On Spotify the follower total is 61,422. For context, the 66 tracked songs average 3.2M plays apiece.
The figures come from 88 daily readings, the most recent taken on 19 August 2026. The two figures measure different things — 191,236 is a Spotify monthly count, 213.1M is the running play total on both platforms.
Right now: 191,236 monthly Spotify listeners
