"Cartel (Ft Imanemun & 021Kid)" is breaking out
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and it is absolutely flying
Well down the Rap list at 1310th, “Cartel” is one of the tracks that moved. The song landed on 9 May 2024 and has had 830 days to travel. Erfan takes 2.1% of all monthly listening on the Rap chart. “Yadete” remains the biggest thing in the catalogue, on 30,889,976 plays. Only 17 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 170,162 on 17 August 2026 — the highest figure in the 86 days FarsiChart has been tracking.
How the numbers moved
That is the 2nd-biggest weekly gain among the 111 artists FarsiChart tracks in Persian rap. Monthly listeners climbed by 15,189 over the week, worth 9.8%. Alongside that, this is not a one-day blip — the rise runs across 17 consecutive daily readings. Across thirty days the gain is 25,073 monthly listeners, or 17.3%.
The follower count added 2,134 in a month, a 0.9% rise to 251,727. On the same measure, that averages 1,239 plays a day since release. A week ago the figure was 154,973; it has moved up 15,189 since. Over 30 days the reading swung 32,395 listeners, from 137,767 at its lowest to 170,162 at its highest.
A month ago the reading stood at 145,089, 25,073 lower than now. One day did more than any other: 2,754 listeners arrived on 9 August 2026. The RadioJavan counter is 3.9M plays higher than it was a month ago, up 0.6%. Across the last seven days the Spotify following moved up 520.
Across 86 tracked days the best consecutive run came to 17 days of gains. Meanwhile, gains showed up on 17 separate days in the last month.
Where the chart stands
“Cartel” ranks 1310th among the Persian rap songs FarsiChart tracks. Seven days have taken Erfan from 13th to 11th among tracked Persian rap artists. Out of 111 Persian rap artists FarsiChart ranks, that is 11th. 11,639 monthly listeners separate this reading from Ashkan Kagan, the artist one rank higher.
The Persian rap leader is Arta, on 279,732 monthly listeners. Catching Arta would take another 109,570 listeners. Half the tracked Persian rap artists are above 55,532 monthly listeners and half below; this reading is 206.4% over that line. A cushion of 5,523 monthly listeners holds off Heliyom in the place below.
Every tracked Persian rap artist together holds 8.1M monthly listeners, and 2.10% of them are here.
The catalogue
“Cartel” dates to 9 May 2024, which puts it 830 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 255.8M 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 229.0M on RadioJavan. RadioJavan's own counter, spanning every track it hosts by the artist, stands at 649.5M plays. 16.6 years separate the earliest indexed release, on 1 January 2010, from today.
251,727 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 2.8M plays each. The figures come from 86 daily readings, the most recent taken on 17 August 2026.
Two sources sit behind those numbers: Spotify for the 170,162 monthly listeners, Spotify and RadioJavan together for the 255.8M plays.
Right now: 1,023,865 plays on RadioJavan
