Googoosh just passed TM Bax
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passed TM Bax to reach #9
TM Bax drops a place as Googoosh moves up. Googoosh first released in 1975. That is 312.1% of the genre median for an artist. “Azizam” remains the biggest thing in the catalogue, on 476,699,166 plays. The strongest single day in the last month added 1,162 listeners, on 13 August 2026.
A place has changed hands on FarsiChart: Googoosh has gone above TM Bax. Monthly Spotify listeners reached 256,305 on 19 August 2026 — the highest figure in the 88 days FarsiChart has been tracking.
How the numbers moved
That is 5,330 more monthly listeners than a week ago, up 2.1%. That is 8 days in a row of gains, with no down day in between. Thirty days of tracking show 9,447 more monthly listeners, a 3.8% rise. Meanwhile, that gain ranks 6th among the 60 artists on the Persian traditional chart this week.
The follower count added 6,722 in a month, a 2.2% rise to 319,145. The starting point seven days back was 250,975, a difference of 5,330. The monthly high is 256,305 and the low 246,531 — 9,774 listeners apart. But a month ago the reading stood at 246,858, 9,447 lower than now.
One day did more than any other: 1,162 listeners arrived on 13 August 2026. RadioJavan added 3.0M plays in the past 30 days. Seven days added 1,689 Spotify followers. Across 88 tracked days the best consecutive run came to 17 days of gains.
Gains showed up on 24 separate days in the last month.
Where the chart stands
Inside the top ten of 60 tracked Persian traditional artists, Googoosh sits 4th. 92,656 monthly listeners separated Googoosh from TM Bax on the day the order changed. The next position belongs to Hayedeh, and the gap to it is 25,939 monthly listeners. At the top of the Persian traditional chart sits Moein, on 299,230 monthly listeners.
The distance to Moein is 42,925 monthly listeners. The Persian traditional ranking is unchanged from a week ago at 4th. For context, the median tracked Persian traditional artist sits on 62,197 monthly listeners, so this count runs 312.1% above the middle of the chart. On the same measure, one rank down sits Siavash Ghomayshi, trailing by 60,775 monthly listeners.
Measured against the whole tracked Persian traditional field — 5.1M monthly listeners — the share works out at 4.99%.
The catalogue
Plays for “Azizam” now stand at 476.7M. FarsiChart indexes 86 Googoosh songs, a catalogue of 888.9M plays. 59.4% of the catalogue's plays come from Spotify, the rest from RadioJavan. RadioJavan's own counter, spanning every track it hosts by the artist, stands at 622.0M plays.
Of the 888.9M catalogue plays, 53.6% belong to “Azizam”. FarsiChart's record starts at 1 January 1975 — 51.6 years of releases. On Spotify the follower total is 319,145. For context, the 86 tracked songs average 10.3M plays apiece.
The figures come from 88 daily readings, the most recent taken on 19 August 2026. The 256,305 monthly listeners is Spotify’s own figure; the 888.9M plays combine Spotify and RadioJavan.
Right now: 256,305 monthly Spotify listeners
