Faramarz Assef just passed Leila Forouhar
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passed Leila Forouhar to reach #13
Faramarz Assef took the place Leila Forouhar held, with 9 to spare. This is a 36-year career reading, not a snapshot. 29,973 people follow the artist on Spotify. Moein leads the genre on 299,560 monthly listeners, 169,360 ahead. 16 of the last thirty days finished higher than they started.
Persian traditional artist Faramarz Assef has overtaken Leila Forouhar on FarsiChart. The 130,200 monthly listeners logged on 20 August 2026 is the highest reading across 89 days of tracking.
How the numbers moved
On the Persian traditional chart, 60 artists deep, 1 posted a larger seven-day gain. Meanwhile, the past seven days added 9,480 monthly listeners, a gain of 7.9%. Across thirty days the gain is 16,849 monthly listeners, or 14.9%. Alongside that, the listener count has risen on each of the last 4 days.
Spotify followers grew by 475 over the same 30 days, up 1.6%. But seven days ago the reading was 120,720, 9,480 below where it stands now. Inside the last 30 days the count ran between 113,351 and 130,200, a spread of 16,849. A month ago the reading stood at 113,351, 16,849 lower than now.
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 152. The longest unbroken run of daily gains in the 89 days on file is 8 days.
16 of the past 30 readings came in above the day before.
Where the chart stands
Faramarz Assef has climbed to 13th on the FarsiChart Persian traditional chart, from 17th a week ago. Faramarz Assef opened a margin of 9 monthly listeners over Leila Forouhar. Out of 60 Persian traditional artists FarsiChart ranks, that is 13th. The next position belongs to Homayoun Shajarian, and the gap to it is 14,900 monthly listeners.
At the top of the Persian traditional chart sits Moein, on 299,560 monthly listeners. The distance to Moein is 169,360 monthly listeners. Half the tracked Persian traditional artists are above 62,197 monthly listeners and half below; this reading is 109.3% over that line. A cushion of 9 monthly listeners holds off Leila Forouhar in the place below.
Measured against the whole tracked Persian traditional field — 5.1M monthly listeners — the share works out at 2.53%.
The catalogue
The catalogue’s biggest track, “Kamar Baarik”, sits on 9.4M plays. 69 songs credited to Faramarz Assef are tracked here, holding 59.1M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. Roughly one monthly listener in 4 has hit follow on Spotify. The split is 9.0M plays on Spotify against 50.1M on RadioJavan.
RadioJavan has logged 56.1M plays across all of the artist's music it hosts, which reaches wider than the songs indexed here. FarsiChart's record starts at 1 January 1990 — 36.6 years of releases. 29,973 accounts follow along on Spotify. Spread over 69 songs, the catalogue averages 856,392 plays each.
FarsiChart has logged this artist daily for 89 days; 20 August 2026 is the latest reading. The 130,200 monthly listeners is Spotify’s own figure; the 59.1M plays combine Spotify and RadioJavan.
Right now: 130,200 monthly Spotify listeners
