Black Cats just passed Montiego
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#7 on the chart on September 25
The order changed by 3,289 monthly listeners: Black Cats over Montiego. Black Cats has been releasing music for 34 years. The artist’s monthly listener count sits 306.8% above the genre median. Spotify followers moved 2.6% over the last thirty days. Whether it holds depends on the next few readings rather than this one.
Persian pop artist Black Cats has overtaken Montiego on FarsiChart. Monthly Spotify listeners reached 217,813 on 25 September 2026 — the highest figure in the 125 days FarsiChart has been tracking.
How the numbers moved
Seven days brought 5,467 additional monthly listeners, a 2.6% rise. Alongside that, thirty days of tracking show 23,077 more monthly listeners, an 11.9% rise. Only 7 Persian pop artists added more listeners over the same seven days. Meanwhile, the follower count added 1,595 in a month, a 2.6% rise to 63,325.
Seven days ago the reading was 212,346, 5,467 below where it stands now. Inside the last 30 days the count ran between 194,736 and 217,813, a spread of 23,077. Thirty days back the figure was 194,736 — a move of 23,077 since. The strongest single day in that month was 12 September 2026, worth 2,163 listeners.
Thirty days of RadioJavan listening added 1.0M plays to a total of 208.0M. Seven days added 529 Spotify followers. Across 125 tracked days the best consecutive run came to 17 days of gains. Gains showed up on 26 separate days in the last month.
Where the chart stands
Black Cats has climbed to 7th on the FarsiChart Persian pop chart, from 9th a week ago. Only 6 Persian pop artists on FarsiChart carry more monthly listeners than Black Cats. Montiego stood on 214,524 monthly listeners when Black Cats moved ahead, a margin of 3,289. The next position belongs to Shadmehr Aghili, and the gap to it is 3,921 monthly listeners.
Arash leads the Persian pop chart with 13,691,347 monthly listeners. The distance to Arash is 13,473,534 monthly listeners. Half the tracked Persian pop artists are above 53,544 monthly listeners and half below; this reading is 306.8% over that line. The nearest artist below is Montiego, 3,289 monthly listeners back.
Every tracked Persian pop artist together holds 24.4M monthly listeners, and 0.89% of them are here.
The catalogue
The catalogue’s biggest track, “Dafi Joon”, sits on 38.3M plays. FarsiChart indexes 126 Black Cats songs, a catalogue of 226.0M plays. Against 217,813 monthly listeners, Spotify shows 63,325 followers. RadioJavan carries 193.8M of those plays and Spotify 32.2M — 14.3% of the total is Spotify.
RadioJavan's own counter, spanning every track it hosts by the artist, stands at 208.0M plays. FarsiChart's record starts at 1 January 1992 — 34.7 years of releases. 63,325 accounts follow along on Spotify. Spread over 126 songs, the catalogue averages 1.8M plays each.
Every number above comes from FarsiChart’s own daily tracking — 125 readings up to 25 September 2026. The 217,813 monthly listeners is Spotify’s own figure; the 226.0M plays combine Spotify and RadioJavan.
Right now: 217,813 monthly Spotify listeners
