Googoosh just passed Behzad Leito
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Googoosh and Behzad Leito have swapped places, 557 apart. 51 years separate the first release from this one. 338 tracks make up the catalogue it belongs to. The artist’s peak was 276,703 monthly listeners, on 3 October 2026. The strongest single day in the last month added 1,038 listeners, on 17 September 2026.
Persian traditional artist Googoosh has overtaken Behzad Leito on FarsiChart. Only 3 Persian traditional artists on FarsiChart carry more monthly listeners than Googoosh.
How the numbers moved
Over the last month monthly listeners are up 2.3%, a gain of 6,102. Meanwhile, the listener count has risen on each of the last 3 days. Googoosh is running 668 listeners short of the 276,703 peak set on 3 October 2026. Followers are up 2.9% across the month, a gain of 9,372.
The starting point seven days back was 276,132, a difference of 97. Inside the last 30 days the count ran between 269,933 and 276,703, a spread of 6,770. A month ago the reading stood at 269,933, 6,102 lower than now. The strongest single day in that month was 17 September 2026, worth 1,038 listeners.
Thirty days of RadioJavan listening added 4.0M plays to a total of 628.0M. Across the last seven days the Spotify following moved up 1,875. Since tracking began, 17 days is the longest the count has climbed without a down day. The count rose on 19 of the last 30 daily readings.
Where the chart stands
Behzad Leito stood on 250,273 monthly listeners when Googoosh moved ahead, a margin of 557. Meanwhile, one place up the chart is Moein, 48,616 monthly listeners ahead. Hayedeh leads the Persian traditional chart with 330,090 monthly listeners. Googoosh has 54,055 listeners to make up on Hayedeh.
The Persian traditional ranking is unchanged from a week ago at 4th. Half the tracked Persian traditional artists are above 46,312 monthly listeners and half below; this reading is 496% over that line. A cushion of 50,804 monthly listeners holds off Siavash Ghomayshi in the place below. Googoosh accounts for 4.10% of the 6.7M monthly listeners the tracked Persian traditional chart holds in total.
The catalogue
Plays for “Hamsafar” now stand at 41.3M. The tracked catalogue runs deep: 338 Googoosh songs on FarsiChart, 614.5M plays between them. Platform by platform: Spotify 64.5M, RadioJavan 550.1M. RadioJavan's own counter, spanning every track it hosts by the artist, stands at 628.0M plays.
The oldest release on file is dated 1 January 1975, which puts 51.8 years of music in the index. On Spotify the follower total is 335,756. Spread over 338 songs, the catalogue averages 1.8M plays each. FarsiChart has logged this artist daily for 141 days; 11 October 2026 is the latest reading.
Two sources sit behind those numbers: Spotify for the 276,035 monthly listeners, Spotify and RadioJavan together for the 614.5M plays.
Right now: 250,830 monthly Spotify listeners
