Faramarz Assef just passed Farhad Mehrad
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passed Farhad Mehrad to reach #15
Faramarz Assef passed Farhad Mehrad this week by 1,024 monthly listeners. This is a 36-year career reading, not a snapshot. The artist page shows 126,324 monthly listeners. “Kamar Baarik” remains the biggest thing in the catalogue, on 9,350,375 plays. Nothing in the last thirty days has come near the 126,324 peak.
A place has changed hands on FarsiChart: Faramarz Assef has gone above Farhad Mehrad. Monthly Spotify listeners reached 126,324 on 17 August 2026 — the highest figure in the 86 days FarsiChart has been tracking.
How the numbers moved
Only 1 of the 59 artists on the Persian traditional chart gained more listeners over the same week. Meanwhile, the past seven days added 8,961 monthly listeners, a gain of 7.6%. Over the last month monthly listeners are up 11.8%, a gain of 13,311. Followers are up 1.6% across the month, a gain of 463.
A week ago the figure was 117,363; it has moved up 8,961 since. Inside the last 30 days the count ran between 113,013 and 126,324, a spread of 13,311. Thirty days back the figure was 113,013 — a move of 13,311 since. One day did more than any other: 2,521 listeners arrived on 11 August 2026.
Thirty days of RadioJavan listening added 200,000 plays to a total of 56.1M. Across the last seven days the Spotify following moved up 146. Alongside that, the longest unbroken run of daily gains in the 86 days on file is 8 days. 15 of the past 30 readings came in above the day before.
Where the chart stands
Seven days have taken Faramarz Assef from 18th to 15th among tracked Persian traditional artists. Faramarz Assef opened a margin of 1,024 monthly listeners over Farhad Mehrad. Out of 59 Persian traditional artists FarsiChart ranks, that is 15th. Closing on Aref means finding 1,601 monthly listeners.
At the top of the Persian traditional chart sits Moein, on 297,169 monthly listeners. The distance to Moein is 170,845 monthly listeners. Against a chart median of 60,406, that is 109.1% ahead of the typical tracked Persian traditional artist. But the nearest artist below is Farhad Mehrad, 1,024 monthly listeners back.
That is 2.53% of the 5.0M monthly listeners the tracked Persian traditional chart holds in total.
The catalogue
Plays for “Kamar Baarik” now stand at 9.4M. Those 24 tracked songs hold 46.5M plays between them. Against 126,324 monthly listeners, Spotify shows 29,914 followers. RadioJavan's own counter, spanning every track it hosts by the artist, stands at 56.1M plays.
The oldest release on file is dated 1 January 1990, which puts 36.6 years of music in the index. 29,914 accounts follow along on Spotify. For context, that works out at an average of 1.9M plays a song across the 24 tracked. The figures come from 86 daily readings, the most recent taken on 17 August 2026.
The 126,324 monthly listeners is Spotify’s own figure; the 46.5M plays combine Spotify and RadioJavan.
Right now: 126,324 monthly Spotify listeners
