Leila Forouhar just passed Faramarz Assef
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passed Faramarz Assef to reach #13
Leila Forouhar has moved ahead of Faramarz Assef by 274 monthly listeners, which is close enough to change back. This is where Leila Forouhar stands as of 25 August 2026. The artist’s biggest track, “Vadeh”, has 23,313,151 plays for comparison. That is against a high of 134,259 reached on 3 July 2026. A gap of 14,652 is one good week, so the order here is not settled.
Faramarz Assef has given up ground to Leila Forouhar on the monthly listener count FarsiChart ranks by.
How the numbers moved
Across thirty days the gain is 1,504 monthly listeners, or 1.2%. But thirty days brought 1,457 new Spotify followers, taking the total to 121,066. The starting point seven days back was 129,983, a difference of 296. Inside the last 30 days the count ran between 128,275 and 131,708, a spread of 3,433.
Thirty days back the figure was 128,775 — a move of 1,504 since. The biggest daily jump of the month landed on 29 July 2026 — 678 listeners in 24 hours. RadioJavan added 1.0M plays in the past 30 days. Set against the 3 July 2026 high of 134,259, the count is 3,980 lower.
The weekly follower change is plus 358, against a total of 121,066. Week to week the count barely moved: up 296 listeners, 0.2%. Meanwhile, the longest unbroken run of daily gains in the 94 days on file is 17 days. Alongside that, gains showed up on 16 separate days in the last month.
Set against the rest of the Persian traditional chart, the week ranks 36th of 60 on listeners gained.
Where the chart stands
274 monthly listeners separated Leila Forouhar from Faramarz Assef on the day the order changed. Out of 60 Persian traditional artists FarsiChart ranks, that is 13th. One place up the chart is Homayoun Shajarian, 14,652 monthly listeners ahead. The Persian traditional leader is Moein, on 300,937 monthly listeners.
That leaves 170,658 listeners to make up on Moein. No change in rank over the week: 13th on the Persian traditional chart. Against a chart median of 62,328, that is 109% ahead of the typical tracked Persian traditional artist. For context, one rank down sits Faramarz Assef, trailing by 274 monthly listeners.
Every tracked Persian traditional artist together holds 5.2M monthly listeners, and 2.51% of them are here.
The catalogue
“Vadeh” has passed 23.3M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. FarsiChart indexes 166 Leila Forouhar songs, a catalogue of 237.7M plays. RadioJavan carries 207.2M of those plays and Spotify 30.5M — 12.8% of the total is Spotify. RadioJavan has logged 241.0M 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 1992, which puts 34.6 years of music in the index. On Spotify the follower total is 121,066. Spread over 166 songs, the catalogue averages 1.4M plays each. Every number above comes from FarsiChart’s own daily tracking — 94 readings up to 25 August 2026.
Two sources sit behind those numbers: Spotify for the 130,279 monthly listeners, Spotify and RadioJavan together for the 237.7M plays.
Right now: 130,279 monthly Spotify listeners
