"Cartel (Ft Imanemun & 021Kid)" is breaking out
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Well down the Rap list at 1299th, “Cartel” is one of the tracks that moved. The song landed on 9 May 2024 and has had 827 days to travel. Erfan takes 2% of all monthly listening on the Rap chart. “Yadete” remains the biggest thing in the catalogue, on 30,877,525 plays. Only 16 days in thirty moved upward, which is what makes this one stand out.
“Cartel” has crossed a million: 1.0M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. Monthly Spotify listeners reached 163,749 on 14 August 2026 — the highest figure in the 83 days FarsiChart has been tracking.
How the numbers moved
That is the 3rd-biggest weekly gain among the 111 artists FarsiChart tracks in Persian rap. Monthly listeners climbed by 16,193 over the week, worth 11%. Alongside that, this is not a one-day blip — the rise runs across 14 consecutive daily readings. Across thirty days the gain is 18,069 monthly listeners, or 12.4%.
The follower count added 2,058 in a month, a 0.8% rise to 251,444. On the same measure, that averages 1,232 plays a day since release. A week ago the figure was 147,556; it has moved up 16,193 since. Over 30 days the reading swung 25,982 listeners, from 137,767 at its lowest to 163,749 at its highest.
A month ago the reading stood at 145,680, 18,069 lower than now. One day did more than any other: 2,754 listeners arrived on 9 August 2026. The RadioJavan counter is 3.6M plays higher than it was a month ago, up 0.6%. Across the last seven days the Spotify following moved up 394.
Across 83 tracked days the best consecutive run came to 17 days of gains. Meanwhile, gains showed up on 16 separate days in the last month.
Where the chart stands
“Cartel” ranks 1299th among the Persian rap songs FarsiChart tracks. Seven days have taken Erfan from 15th to 12th among tracked Persian rap artists. Out of 111 Persian rap artists FarsiChart ranks, that is 12th. 1,161 monthly listeners separate this reading from Heliyom, the artist one rank higher.
The Persian rap leader is Arta, on 279,158 monthly listeners. Catching Arta would take another 115,409 listeners. Half the tracked Persian rap artists are above 54,838 monthly listeners and half below; this reading is 198.6% over that line. A cushion of 5,625 monthly listeners holds off Hoomaan in the place below.
Every tracked Persian rap artist together holds 8.1M monthly listeners, and 2.03% of them are here.
The catalogue
“Cartel” dates to 9 May 2024, which puts it 827 days into circulation. On the same measure, the catalogue’s biggest track, “Yadete”, sits on 30.9M plays. Among those 93 tracked songs, “Cartel” places 34th by plays. 93 songs credited to Erfan are tracked here, holding 255.5M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan.
The previous dated release came 714 days earlier, on 26 May 2022. The split is 26.8M plays on Spotify against 228.7M on RadioJavan. RadioJavan's own counter, spanning every track it hosts by the artist, stands at 649.0M plays. 16.6 years separate the earliest indexed release, on 1 January 2010, from today.
251,444 accounts follow along on Spotify. Of the 93 songs on file, 1 are dated within the past year. Spread over 93 songs, the catalogue averages 2.7M plays each. The figures come from 83 daily readings, the most recent taken on 14 August 2026.
Two sources sit behind those numbers: Spotify for the 163,749 monthly listeners, Spotify and RadioJavan together for the 255.5M plays.
Right now: 1,007,882 plays on RadioJavan
