Erfan just passed Ashkan Kagan
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passed Ashkan Kagan to reach #10
Erfan and Ashkan Kagan have swapped places, 468 apart. 19 years and 195 tracks stand behind the position. The whole catalogue has 427,296,688 plays behind it. That is against a high of 183,289 reached on 28 August 2026. The strongest single day in the last month added 2,754 listeners, on 9 August 2026.
Ashkan Kagan has given up ground to Erfan on the monthly listener count FarsiChart ranks by. Monthly Spotify listeners reached 183,289 on 28 August 2026 — the highest figure in the 97 days FarsiChart has been tracking.
How the numbers moved
A month of tracking shows 32.1% growth — 44,544 monthly listeners. That is 6,324 more monthly listeners than a week ago, up 3.6%. Measured on weekly gain alone, the week places 5th out of 120 in Persian rap. Followers are up 0.8% across the month, a gain of 2,037.
A week ago the figure was 176,965; it has moved up 6,324 since. Inside the last 30 days the count ran between 137,767 and 183,289, a spread of 45,522. A month ago the reading stood at 138,745, 44,544 lower than now. One day did more than any other: 2,754 listeners arrived on 9 August 2026.
RadioJavan added 4.6M plays in the past 30 days. Seven days added 371 Spotify followers. Since tracking began, 26 days is the longest the count has climbed without a down day. The count rose on 27 of the last 30 daily readings.
Where the chart stands
Erfan has climbed to 10th on the FarsiChart Persian rap chart, from 11th a week ago. Erfan holds a top-ten place on the Persian rap chart, 10th of 120. 468 monthly listeners separated Erfan from Ashkan Kagan on the day the order changed. 29,764 monthly listeners separate this reading from Saaren, the artist one rank higher.
At the top of the Persian rap chart sits Arta, on 286,810 monthly listeners. Catching Arta would take another 103,521 listeners. On the same measure, the median tracked Persian rap artist sits on 55,237 monthly listeners, so this count runs 231.8% above the middle of the chart. For context, one rank down sits Ashkan Kagan, trailing by 468 monthly listeners.
Measured against the whole tracked Persian rap field — 8.6M monthly listeners — the share works out at 2.14%.
The catalogue
Plays for “Yadete” now stand at 30.9M. 195 songs credited to Erfan are tracked here, holding 427.3M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. The split is 20.8M plays on Spotify against 406.5M on RadioJavan. RadioJavan's own counter, spanning every track it hosts by the artist, stands at 650.9M plays.
FarsiChart's record starts at 1 January 2007 — 19.7 years of releases. Against that, the Spotify follower count stands at 252,385. The last twelve months account for 10 of the 195 tracked releases. On the same measure, that works out at an average of 2.2M plays a song across the 195 tracked.
Every number above comes from FarsiChart’s own daily tracking — 97 readings up to 28 August 2026. The 183,289 monthly listeners is Spotify’s own figure; the 427.3M plays combine Spotify and RadioJavan.
Right now: 183,289 monthly Spotify listeners
