Mahyar just passed Googoosh
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now #9 on the chart
Mahyar has moved ahead of Googoosh by 1,910 monthly listeners, which is close enough to change back. The first release on file dates to 2020. That is 407.7% of the genre median for an artist. That is against a high of 272,350 reached on 12 September 2026. Its best day of the month was 9 September 2026, worth 133,850 listeners.
Googoosh has given up ground to Mahyar on the monthly listener count FarsiChart ranks by. The 272,350 monthly listeners logged on 12 September 2026 is the highest reading across 112 days of tracking.
How the numbers moved
That is the biggest seven-day gain of any of the 137 Persian rap artists FarsiChart tracks. Daily readings have moved up 4 days in a row. Spotify followers fell by 336,913 over the same 30 days, down 99.8%. Against that, the monthly high is 272,350 and the low 124,766 — 147,584 listeners apart.
One day did more than any other: 133,850 listeners arrived on 9 September 2026. The RadioJavan counter is 2.2M plays higher than it was a month ago, up 2.5%. Across the last seven days the Spotify following moved down 342,157. Since tracking began, 12 days is the longest the count has climbed without a down day.
22 of the past 30 readings came in above the day before.
Where the chart stands
Seven days have taken Mahyar from 23rd to 3rd among tracked Persian rap artists. Inside the top ten of 137 tracked Persian rap artists, Mahyar sits 3rd. 1,910 monthly listeners separated Mahyar from Googoosh on the day the order changed. 3,429 monthly listeners separate this reading from Koorosh, the artist one rank higher.
Arta leads the Persian rap chart with 297,089 monthly listeners. That leaves 24,739 listeners to make up on Arta. Against a chart median of 53,649, that is 407.7% ahead of the typical tracked Persian rap artist. Against that, the nearest artist below is Behzad Leito, 8,853 monthly listeners back.
That is 2.83% of the 9.6M monthly listeners the tracked Persian rap chart holds in total.
The catalogue
The catalogue’s biggest track, “Faghat Bash”, sits on 13.8M plays. The tracked catalogue runs deep: 68 Mahyar songs on FarsiChart, 112.9M plays between them. 618 Spotify followers sit behind a monthly listener count of 272,350. Platform by platform: Spotify 51.8M, RadioJavan 61.2M.
On RadioJavan, the lifetime counter across every track it carries by the artist reads 89.7M. The oldest release on file is dated 15 August 2020, which puts 6.1 years of music in the index. The Spotify follower count stands at 618. 11 of those 68 tracked songs carry a release date inside the last twelve months.
That works out at an average of 1.7M plays a song across the 68 tracked. Every number above comes from FarsiChart’s own daily tracking — 112 readings up to 12 September 2026. Against that, two sources sit behind those numbers: Spotify for the 272,350 monthly listeners, Spotify and RadioJavan together for the 112.9M plays.
Right now: 272,350 monthly Spotify listeners
