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. 55 tracks make up the catalogue it belongs to. The artist’s peak was 253,684 monthly listeners, on 20 June 2026. Followers rising while listening falls usually means an audience that stayed but played less.
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
A count of 253,038 monthly listeners is the strongest figure Googoosh has posted since 22 June 2026. Over the last month monthly listeners are up 2.5%, a gain of 6,278. Only 4 Persian traditional artists added more listeners over the same seven days. Meanwhile, the listener count has risen on each of the last 3 days.
Googoosh is running 646 listeners short of the 253,684 peak set on 20 June 2026. Followers are up 2.1% across the month, a gain of 6,531. The starting point seven days back was 250,830, a difference of 2,208. Inside the last 30 days the count ran between 246,512 and 253,038, a spread of 6,526.
A month ago the reading stood at 246,760, 6,278 lower than now. The strongest single day in that month was 13 August 2026, worth 1,162 listeners. Thirty days of RadioJavan listening added 2.0M plays to a total of 621.0M. Across the last seven days the Spotify following moved up 1,382.
Little shifted over the week: 0.9%, or 2,208 listeners up. Since tracking began, 17 days is the longest the count has climbed without a down day. The count rose on 22 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 Hayedeh, 26,326 monthly listeners ahead. Moein leads the Persian traditional chart with 294,693 monthly listeners. That leaves 41,655 listeners to make up on Moein.
The Persian traditional ranking is unchanged from a week ago at 4th. Half the tracked Persian traditional artists are above 60,246 monthly listeners and half below; this reading is 320% over that line. A cushion of 60,346 monthly listeners holds off Siavash Ghomayshi in the place below. That is 5.12% of the 4.9M monthly listeners the tracked Persian traditional chart holds in total.
The catalogue
Plays for “Hamsafar” now stand at 40.9M. The tracked catalogue runs deep: 55 Googoosh songs on FarsiChart, 406.9M plays between them. Platform by platform: Spotify 48.7M, RadioJavan 358.3M. RadioJavan's own counter, spanning every track it hosts by the artist, stands at 621.0M plays.
The oldest release on file is dated 1 January 1975, which puts 51.6 years of music in the index. On Spotify the follower total is 317,743. Spread over 55 songs, the catalogue averages 7.4M plays each. FarsiChart has logged this artist daily for 83 days; 14 August 2026 is the latest reading.
Two sources sit behind those numbers: Spotify for the 253,038 monthly listeners, Spotify and RadioJavan together for the 406.9M plays.
Right now: 250,830 monthly Spotify listeners
