Farhad Mehrad just passed Aref
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passed Aref to reach #15
The order changed by 44 monthly listeners: Farhad Mehrad over Aref. Farhad Mehrad has 52 tracks on record. That is 103.6% of the genre median for an artist. Moein leads the genre on 300,937 monthly listeners, 174,025 ahead. The next reading will say whether this is a spike or a shift.
A place has changed hands on FarsiChart: Farhad Mehrad has gone above Aref. On the Persian traditional chart the ranking has gone from 16th a week ago to 15th today.
How the numbers moved
Seven days brought 1,200 additional monthly listeners, a 1% rise. Over the last month monthly listeners are up 6%, a gain of 7,190. Farhad Mehrad is running 426 listeners short of the 127,338 peak set on 20 August 2026. Spotify followers grew by 2,182 over the same 30 days, up 1.6%.
Seven days ago the reading was 125,712, 1,200 below where it stands now. But the monthly high is 127,338 and the low 119,722 — 7,616 listeners apart. Against that, a month ago the reading stood at 119,722, 7,190 lower than now. The strongest single day in that month was 27 July 2026, worth 1,525 listeners.
Across the last seven days the Spotify following moved up 469. Meanwhile, the longest unbroken run of daily gains in the 94 days on file is 16 days. Alongside that, gains showed up on 18 separate days in the last month.
Where the chart stands
44 monthly listeners separated Farhad Mehrad from Aref on the day the order changed. The current position is 15th of 60 on FarsiChart’s Persian traditional chart. Closing on Faramarz Assef means finding 3,093 monthly listeners. The Persian traditional leader is Moein, on 300,937 monthly listeners.
Catching Moein would take another 174,025 listeners. Against a chart median of 62,328, that is 103.6% ahead of the typical tracked Persian traditional artist. For context, one rank down sits Aref, trailing by 469 monthly listeners. Every tracked Persian traditional artist together holds 5.2M monthly listeners, and 2.45% of them are here.
The catalogue
“Mard-e Tanha” has passed 3.8M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. 52 songs credited to Farhad Mehrad are tracked here, holding 19.2M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. 135,111 accounts follow along on Spotify. Spread over 52 songs, the catalogue averages 368,403 plays each.
FarsiChart has logged this artist daily for 94 days; 25 August 2026 is the latest reading. The two figures measure different things — 126,912 is a Spotify monthly count, 19.2M is the running play total on both platforms.
Right now: 126,487 monthly Spotify listeners
