"Mahtab" passes 1,000,000 plays
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“Mahtab” has crossed a million: 1.0M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. The 163,618 monthly listeners logged on 18 September 2026 is the highest reading across 118 days of tracking.
How the numbers moved
Monthly listeners climbed by 3,759 over the week, worth 2.4%. Over the last month monthly listeners are up 9.4%, a gain of 14,115. Alongside that, the listener count has risen on each of the last 3 days. Followers are up 4.1% across the month, a gain of 8,920.
A week ago the figure was 159,859; it has moved up 3,759 since. Inside the last 30 days the count ran between 149,081 and 163,618, a spread of 14,537. Thirty days back the figure was 149,503 — a move of 14,115 since. The strongest single day in that month was 31 August 2026, worth 1,292 listeners.
Thirty days of RadioJavan listening added 848,520 plays to a total of 131.2M. The weekly follower change is plus 2,268, against a total of 225,735. Since tracking began, 17 days is the longest the count has climbed without a down day. The count rose on 21 of the last 30 daily readings.
Where the chart stands
FarsiChart places “Mahtab” 2019th on its Persian traditional song list. The current position is 11th of 93 on FarsiChart’s Persian traditional chart. Closing on Shahram Shabpareh means finding 4,472 monthly listeners. Moein leads the Persian traditional chart with 321,332 monthly listeners.
The distance to Moein is 157,714 monthly listeners. Seven days on, the place on the Persian traditional chart is still 11th. Against a chart median of 47,161, that is 246.9% ahead of the typical tracked Persian traditional artist. Against that, a cushion of 21,172 monthly listeners holds off Homayoun Shajarian in the place below.
That is 2.51% of the 6.5M monthly listeners the tracked Persian traditional chart holds in total.
The catalogue
The catalogue’s biggest track, “Dele Divane”, sits on 15.6M plays. 29 songs in the tracked catalogue have more plays than “Mahtab”. 278 songs credited to Viguen are tracked here, holding 159.9M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. The split is 31.1M plays on Spotify against 128.8M on RadioJavan.
On RadioJavan, the lifetime counter across every track it carries by the artist reads 131.2M. FarsiChart's record starts at 1 January 1991 — 35.7 years of releases. 225,735 accounts follow along on Spotify. On the same measure, that works out at an average of 575,250 plays a song across the 278 tracked.
Every number above comes from FarsiChart’s own daily tracking — 118 readings up to 18 September 2026. Against that, two sources sit behind those numbers: Spotify for the 163,618 monthly listeners, Spotify and RadioJavan together for the 159.9M plays.
Right now: 163,618 monthly Spotify listeners
