Montiego just passed Sijal
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#13 on the chart on August 26
The order changed by 595 monthly listeners: Montiego over Sijal. This is a 7-year career reading, not a snapshot. Montiego takes 1% of all monthly listening on the Pop chart. The artist’s peak was 266,392 monthly listeners, on 8 June 2026. The next reading will say whether this is a spike or a shift.
A place has changed hands on FarsiChart: Montiego has gone above Sijal. Inside the top ten of 132 tracked Persian pop artists, Montiego sits 5th.
How the numbers moved
Monthly listeners climbed by 3,110 over the week, worth 1.3%. Montiego has not drawn this many monthly listeners since 11 August 2026; the count reads 239,880 today. Over thirty days the direction is down: 9,328 monthly listeners lost, off 3.7%. Measured on weekly gain alone, the week places 7th out of 132 in Persian pop.
Daily readings have moved up 3 days in a row. Against that, thirty days brought 24 new Spotify followers, taking the total to 13,433. Alongside that, seven days ago the reading was 236,770, 3,110 below where it stands now. Over 30 days the reading swung 14,060 listeners, from 235,956 at its lowest to 250,016 at its highest.
Thirty days back the figure was 249,208 — a move of 9,328 since. The biggest daily jump of the month landed on 26 August 2026 — 2,103 listeners in 24 hours. RadioJavan added 238,275 plays in the past 30 days. FarsiChart logged 266,392 on 8 June 2026; the current figure is 26,512 short of that.
Across 80 tracked days the best consecutive run came to 9 days of gains. 12 of the past 30 readings came in above the day before.
Where the chart stands
Sijal stood on 239,285 monthly listeners when Montiego moved ahead, a margin of 595. Closing on Mansour means finding 3,431 monthly listeners. The Persian pop leader is Arash, on 15,052,745 monthly listeners. Montiego has 14,812,865 listeners to make up on Arash.
Seven days on, the place on the Persian pop chart is still 5th. On the same measure, the median tracked Persian pop artist sits on 57,317 monthly listeners, so this count runs 318.5% above the middle of the chart. For context, one rank down sits Mohsen Yeganeh, trailing by 1,064 monthly listeners. Montiego accounts for 0.96% of the 25.0M monthly listeners the tracked Persian pop chart holds in total.
The catalogue
The catalogue’s biggest track, “PARA”, sits on 73.9M plays. The tracked catalogue runs deep: 48 Montiego songs on FarsiChart, 201.6M plays between them. 13,433 Spotify followers sit behind a monthly listener count of 239,880. Against that, the split is 146.0M plays on Spotify against 55.6M on RadioJavan.
On RadioJavan, the lifetime counter across every track it carries by the artist reads 202.2M. One track carries much of that total: “PARA” is 36.7% of it. FarsiChart's record starts at 2 January 2019 — 7.6 years of releases. 13,433 accounts follow along on Spotify.
Spread over 48 songs, the catalogue averages 4.2M plays each. FarsiChart has logged this artist daily for 80 days; 26 August 2026 is the latest reading. The 239,880 monthly listeners is Spotify’s own figure; the 201.6M plays combine Spotify and RadioJavan.
Right now: 239,880 monthly Spotify listeners
