Faramarz Assef just passed Leila Forouhar
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#13 on the chart on September 1
Faramarz Assef took the place Leila Forouhar held, with 286 to spare. This is a 36-year career reading, not a snapshot. 30,243 people follow the artist on Spotify. Moein leads the genre on 305,709 monthly listeners, 171,530 ahead. 18 of the last thirty days finished higher than they started.
Persian traditional artist Faramarz Assef has overtaken Leila Forouhar on FarsiChart. The 134,179 monthly listeners logged on 1 September 2026 is the highest reading across 101 days of tracking.
How the numbers moved
The past seven days added 4,174 monthly listeners, a gain of 3.2%. Across thirty days the gain is 16,724 monthly listeners, or 14.2%. Only 7 Persian traditional artists added more listeners over the same seven days. Spotify followers grew by 569 over the same 30 days, up 1.9%.
Seven days ago the reading was 130,005, 4,174 below where it stands now. Inside the last 30 days the count ran between 116,193 and 134,179, a spread of 17,986. A month ago the reading stood at 117,455, 16,724 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 56.2M. Across the last seven days the Spotify following moved up 153. Meanwhile, the longest unbroken run of daily gains in the 101 days on file is 8 days. 18 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 14th a week ago. Faramarz Assef opened a margin of 286 monthly listeners over Leila Forouhar. Out of 63 Persian traditional artists FarsiChart ranks, Faramarz Assef is 13th. The next position belongs to Homayoun Shajarian, and the gap to it is 8,198 monthly listeners.
At the top of the Persian traditional chart sits Moein, on 305,709 monthly listeners. The distance to Moein is 171,530 monthly listeners. Half the tracked Persian traditional artists are above 66,395 monthly listeners and half below; this reading is 102.1% over that line. A cushion of 286 monthly listeners holds off Leila Forouhar in the place below.
Measured against the whole tracked Persian traditional field — 5.5M monthly listeners — the share works out at 2.43%.
The catalogue
The catalogue’s biggest track, “Kamar Baarik”, sits on 9.4M plays. 89 songs credited to Faramarz Assef are tracked here, holding 59.7M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. Roughly one monthly listener in 4 has hit follow on Spotify. The split is 9.5M plays on Spotify against 50.2M on RadioJavan.
RadioJavan has logged 56.2M 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 — 36.7 years of releases. 30,243 accounts follow along on Spotify. Spread over 89 songs, the catalogue averages 670,292 plays each.
FarsiChart has logged this artist daily for 101 days; 1 September 2026 is the latest reading. The 134,179 monthly listeners is Spotify’s own figure; the 59.7M plays combine Spotify and RadioJavan.
Right now: 134,179 monthly Spotify listeners
