Faramarz Assef just passed Aref
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passed Aref to reach #14
Faramarz Assef is now in front of Aref, though only by 947 monthly listeners. This is where Faramarz Assef stands as of 19 August 2026. The whole catalogue has 53,594,417 plays behind it. Spotify followers moved 1.7% over the same thirty days. For a 36-year catalogue, movement of this kind is worth noting.
FarsiChart has logged Faramarz Assef, tracked in Persian traditional, passing Aref. Monthly Spotify listeners reached 129,197 on 19 August 2026 — the highest figure in the 88 days FarsiChart has been tracking.
How the numbers moved
That is the 2nd-biggest weekly gain among the 60 artists FarsiChart tracks in Persian traditional. Alongside that, seven days brought 8,477 additional monthly listeners, a 7% rise. Across thirty days the gain is 15,936 monthly listeners, or 14.1%. Meanwhile, the listener count has risen on each of the last 3 days.
The follower count added 487 in a month, a 1.7% rise to 29,952. Against that, seven days ago the reading was 120,720, 8,477 below where it stands now. Inside the last 30 days the count ran between 113,261 and 129,197, a spread of 15,936. Thirty days back the figure was 113,261 — a move of 15,936 since.
The biggest daily jump of the month landed on 11 August 2026 — 2,521 listeners in 24 hours. RadioJavan added 200,000 plays in the past 30 days. The weekly follower change is plus 131, against a total of 29,952. Across 88 tracked days the best consecutive run came to 8 days of gains.
The count rose on 16 of the last 30 daily readings.
Where the chart stands
Faramarz Assef has climbed to 14th on the FarsiChart Persian traditional chart, from 17th a week ago. The gap between Faramarz Assef and Aref at the moment of the pass was 947 monthly listeners. Ranked by monthly listeners, that is 14th among 60 Persian traditional artists. The next position belongs to Leila Forouhar, and the gap to it is 905 monthly listeners.
At the top of the Persian traditional chart sits Moein, on 299,230 monthly listeners. The distance to Moein is 170,033 monthly listeners. On the same measure, the median tracked Persian traditional artist sits on 62,197 monthly listeners, so this count runs 107.7% above the middle of the chart. For context, one rank down sits Aref, trailing by 947 monthly listeners.
That is 2.51% of the 5.1M monthly listeners the tracked Persian traditional chart holds in total.
The catalogue
The catalogue’s biggest track, “Kamar Baarik”, sits on 9.4M plays. 39 songs credited to Faramarz Assef are tracked here, holding 53.6M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. Roughly one monthly listener in 4 has hit follow on Spotify. RadioJavan carries 44.4M of those plays and Spotify 9.1M — 17.1% of the total is Spotify.
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. On Spotify the follower total is 29,952. On the same measure, that works out at an average of 1.4M plays a song across the 39 tracked.
The figures come from 88 daily readings, the most recent taken on 19 August 2026. Two sources sit behind those numbers: Spotify for the 129,197 monthly listeners, Spotify and RadioJavan together for the 53.6M plays.
Right now: 129,197 monthly Spotify listeners
