Dariush just passed Faramarz Aslani
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Dariush and Faramarz Aslani have swapped places, 463 apart. 48 years separate the first release from this one. The artist page shows 191,941 monthly listeners. That is against a high of 191,941 reached on 14 September 2026. Followers rising while listening falls usually means an audience that stayed but played less.
Persian traditional artist Dariush has overtaken Faramarz Aslani on FarsiChart. Monthly Spotify listeners reached 191,941 on 15 September 2026 — the highest figure in the 115 days FarsiChart has been tracking.
How the numbers moved
That is 1,922 more monthly listeners than a week ago, up 1%. Meanwhile, thirty days of tracking show 9,386 more monthly listeners, a 5.1% rise. Spotify followers grew by 13,222 over the same 30 days, up 2.8%. But seven days ago the reading was 190,019, 1,922 below where it stands now.
Inside the last 30 days the count ran between 182,555 and 191,941, a spread of 9,386. A month ago the reading stood at 182,555, 9,386 lower than now. The strongest single day in that month was 30 August 2026, worth 1,305 listeners. The RadioJavan counter is 3.0M plays higher than it was a month ago, up 0.4%.
Seven days added 2,840 Spotify followers. Since tracking began, 17 days is the longest the count has climbed without a down day. The count rose on 21 of the last 30 daily readings.
Where the chart stands
Dariush has climbed to 7th on the FarsiChart Persian traditional chart, from 8th a week ago. Only 6 Persian traditional artists on FarsiChart carry more monthly listeners than Dariush. The gap between Dariush and Faramarz Aslani at the moment of the pass was 463 monthly listeners. Closing on Andy means finding 4,741 monthly listeners.
The Persian traditional leader is Moein, on 319,161 monthly listeners. The distance to Moein is 127,220 monthly listeners. Against a chart median of 44,309, that is 333.2% ahead of the typical tracked Persian traditional artist. For context, one rank down sits Faramarz Aslani, trailing by 463 monthly listeners.
Measured against the whole tracked Persian traditional field — 6.5M monthly listeners — the share works out at 2.96%.
The catalogue
Plays for “Shame Mahtab” now stand at 39.8M. FarsiChart indexes 282 Dariush songs, a catalogue of 681.4M plays. 6.8% of the catalogue's plays come from Spotify, the rest from RadioJavan. On RadioJavan, the lifetime counter across every track it carries by the artist reads 706.0M.
48.7 years separate the earliest indexed release, on 1 January 1978, from today. On Spotify the follower total is 489,180. 1 of those 282 tracked songs carry a release date inside the last twelve months. For context, the 282 tracked songs average 2.4M plays apiece.
Every number above comes from FarsiChart’s own daily tracking — 115 readings up to 15 September 2026. The two figures measure different things — 191,941 is a Spotify monthly count, 681.4M is the running play total on both platforms.
Right now: 191,941 monthly Spotify listeners
