"Khakestari" passes 5,000,000 plays
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“Khakestari” has crossed a million: 5.0M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. Monthly Spotify listeners reached 316,545 on 26 September 2026 — the highest figure in the 126 days FarsiChart has been tracking.
How the numbers moved
Monthly listeners are 5,116 higher than a week ago, up 1.6%. Across thirty days the gain is 28,054 monthly listeners, or 9.7%. Alongside that, the weekly gain for Ebi ranks 9th among the 93 artists on the Persian traditional chart. Spotify followers grew by 20,773 over the same 30 days, up 2.9%.
The song has averaged 383 plays a day since release. A week ago the figure was 311,429; it has moved up 5,116 since. Over 30 days the reading swung 28,054 listeners, from 288,491 at its lowest to 316,545 at its highest. A month ago the reading stood at 288,491, 28,054 lower than now.
The strongest single day in that month was 19 September 2026, worth 2,355 listeners. Across the last seven days the Spotify following moved up 5,078. Meanwhile, the longest unbroken run of daily gains in the 126 days on file is 17 days. Gains showed up on 26 separate days in the last month.
Where the chart stands
FarsiChart places “Khakestari” 593rd on its Persian traditional song list. Inside the top ten of 93 tracked Persian traditional artists, Ebi sits 3rd. Ebi is 12,576 monthly listeners behind Hayedeh, on a leading count of 329,121. The next position belongs to Moein, and the gap to it is 10,354 monthly listeners.
A month ago the position on that chart was 2nd, 1 place above where it sits now. The Persian traditional leader is Hayedeh, on 329,121 monthly listeners. On the same measure, the median tracked Persian traditional artist sits on 47,172 monthly listeners, so this count runs 571% above the middle of the chart. Against that, a cushion of 40,196 monthly listeners holds off Googoosh in the place below.
Ebi accounts for 4.79% of the 6.6M monthly listeners the tracked Persian traditional chart holds in total.
The catalogue
13,052 days have passed since “Khakestari” was released on 1 January 1991. “Gheseh Eshgh” has passed 112.5M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. Set against the rest of the catalogue, “Khakestari” is the 72nd most-played of the 332 songs tracked here. 332 songs credited to Ebi are tracked here, holding 1.66B plays across Spotify and RadioJavan.
365 days passed between this release and the one before it, on 1 January 1990. Spotify puts the follower count at 748,642, above half a million. The split is 57.9M plays on Spotify against 1.61B on RadioJavan. RadioJavan has logged 1.71B plays across all of the artist's music it hosts, which reaches wider than the songs indexed here.
The oldest release on file is dated 1 January 1990, which puts 36.7 years of music in the index. 4 of those 332 tracked songs carry a release date inside the last twelve months. On the same measure, the 332 tracked songs average 5.0M plays apiece. The figures come from 126 daily readings, the most recent taken on 26 September 2026.
The two figures measure different things — 316,545 is a Spotify monthly count, 1.66B is the running play total on both platforms.
Right now: 316,545 monthly Spotify listeners
