"Dashi" is breaking out
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“Dashi” is the fastest thing in Shahin Najafi’s recent catalogue, on 1,820,898 plays. The song is 24 days old. That is 164.7% of the genre median for an artist. The thirty-day range is 101,381 to 149,649 monthly listeners. For a 14-year catalogue, movement of this kind is worth noting.
“Dashi” is on 1.8M plays, past the million mark on the two platforms combined. No day in FarsiChart’s 91-day tracking window has produced a higher figure than the 149,649 monthly listeners read on 22 August 2026.
How the numbers moved
No other artist on the 111-strong Persian rap chart gained more listeners over the same week. A month of tracking shows 47.6% growth — 48,239 monthly listeners. The past seven days added 13,776 monthly listeners, a gain of 10.1%. Alongside that, this is not a one-day blip — the rise runs across 14 consecutive daily readings.
Followers are up 1.7% across the month, a gain of 5,994. Over 24 days on release, that is 75,871 plays a day. The starting point seven days back was 135,873, a difference of 13,776. Over 30 days the reading swung 48,268 listeners, from 101,381 at its lowest to 149,649 at its highest.
The thirty-day starting point was 101,410, 48,239 short of the current reading. One day did more than any other: 6,149 listeners arrived on 9 August 2026. Thirty days of RadioJavan listening added 3.6M plays to a total of 51.1M. Across the last seven days the Spotify following moved up 1,529.
Across 91 tracked days the best consecutive run came to 17 days of gains. Meanwhile, the count rose on 24 of the last 30 daily readings.
Where the chart stands
Among tracked Persian rap songs, “Dashi” sits 1462nd. Shahin Najafi has climbed to 15th on the FarsiChart Persian rap chart, from 16th a week ago. Ranked by monthly listeners, that is 15th among 111 Persian rap artists. 4,750 monthly listeners separate this reading from Zedbazi, the artist one rank higher.
Arta leads the Persian rap chart with 282,590 monthly listeners. The distance to Arta is 132,941 monthly listeners. Half the tracked Persian rap artists are above 56,540 monthly listeners and half below; this reading is 164.7% over that line. On the same measure, one rank down sits The Don, trailing by 2,639 monthly listeners.
That is 1.82% of the 8.2M monthly listeners the tracked Persian rap chart holds in total.
The catalogue
24 days have passed since “Dashi” was released on 29 July 2026. Plays for “Mastam Baat” now stand at 8.6M. 6 songs in the tracked catalogue have more plays than “Dashi”. Shahin Najafi takes the lead credit; Erfan is credited alongside.
FarsiChart indexes 130 Shahin Najafi songs, a catalogue of 66.1M plays. The previous release on file is dated 15 May 2026, 75 days earlier. Platform by platform: Spotify 48.7M, RadioJavan 17.4M. On RadioJavan, the lifetime counter across every track it carries by the artist reads 51.1M.
14.6 years separate the earliest indexed release, on 1 January 2012, from today. The Spotify follower count stands at 368,223. Of the 130 songs on file, 4 are dated within the past year. On the same measure, the 130 tracked songs average 508,482 plays apiece.
Its 1.8M plays amount to 2.8% of everything tracked for the artist. Every number above comes from FarsiChart’s own daily tracking — 91 readings up to 22 August 2026. The 149,649 monthly listeners is Spotify’s own figure; the 66.1M plays combine Spotify and RadioJavan.
Right now: 1,717,287 plays on RadioJavan
