Erfan just passed The Don
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passed The Don to reach #14
Erfan passed The Don this week by 2,447 monthly listeners. This is where Erfan stands as of 14 August 2026. That is 2% of the genre’s entire monthly audience. That is against a high of 163,749 reached on 14 August 2026. Followers rising while listening falls usually means an audience that stayed but played less.
A place has changed hands on FarsiChart: Erfan has gone above The Don. The 163,749 monthly listeners logged on 14 August 2026 is the highest reading across 83 days of tracking.
How the numbers moved
On the Persian rap chart, 111 artists deep, 2 posted a larger seven-day gain. Alongside that, that is 16,193 more monthly listeners than a week ago, up 11%. Meanwhile, 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%.
Followers are up 0.9% across the month, a gain of 2,155. The starting point seven days back was 147,556, a difference of 16,193. Over 30 days the reading swung 25,982 listeners, from 137,767 at its lowest to 163,749 at its highest. The thirty-day starting point was 145,680, 18,069 short of the current reading.
One day did more than any other: 2,754 listeners arrived on 9 August 2026. RadioJavan added 3.7M plays in the past 30 days. Across the last seven days the Spotify following moved up 491. Since tracking began, 17 days is the longest the count has climbed without a down day.
16 of the past 30 readings came in above the day before.
Where the chart stands
On the Persian rap chart the ranking has gone from 15th a week ago to 12th today. The Don stood on 147,458 monthly listeners when Erfan moved ahead, a margin of 2,447. 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.
Arta leads the Persian rap chart with 279,158 monthly listeners. The distance to Arta is 115,409 monthly listeners. Half the tracked Persian rap artists are above 54,838 monthly listeners and half below; this reading is 198.6% over that line. The nearest artist below is Hoomaan, 5,625 monthly listeners back.
Measured against the whole tracked Persian rap field — 8.1M monthly listeners — the share works out at 2.03%.
The catalogue
“Yadete” has passed 30.9M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. 93 songs credited to Erfan are tracked here, holding 255.5M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. RadioJavan carries 228.7M of those plays and Spotify 26.8M — 10.5% of the total is Spotify. RadioJavan's own counter, spanning every track it hosts by the artist, stands at 649.1M plays.
FarsiChart's record starts at 1 January 2010 — 16.6 years of releases. On Spotify the follower total is 251,541. 1 of those 93 tracked songs carry a release date inside the last twelve months. Spread over 93 songs, the catalogue averages 2.7M plays each.
Every number above comes from FarsiChart’s own daily tracking — 83 readings up to 14 August 2026. The two figures measure different things — 163,749 is a Spotify monthly count, 255.5M is the running play total on both platforms.
Right now: 149,905 monthly Spotify listeners
