Montiego just passed Mansour
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passed Mansour to reach #4
The two are almost level. Montiego holds a 659-listener lead over Mansour. Montiego has been releasing music for 7 years. That is 1% of the genre’s entire monthly audience. The thirty-day range is 235,956 to 250,016 monthly listeners. The longest unbroken run of gains this month was 9 days.
Persian pop artist Montiego has overtaken Mansour on FarsiChart. Montiego has climbed to 4th on the FarsiChart Persian pop chart, from 5th a week ago.
How the numbers moved
Only 2 of the 132 artists on the Persian pop chart gained more listeners over the same week. Meanwhile, seven days brought 6,539 additional monthly listeners, a 2.8% rise. A count of 242,662 monthly listeners is the strongest figure Montiego has posted since 5 August 2026. Over thirty days the direction is down: 7,354 monthly listeners lost, off 2.9%.
The follower count added 23 in a month, a 0.2% rise to 13,435. Alongside that, a week ago the figure was 236,123; it has moved up 6,539 since. Over 30 days the reading swung 14,060 listeners, from 235,956 at its lowest to 250,016 at its highest. A month ago the reading stood at 250,016, 7,354 higher than now.
One day did more than any other: 3,835 listeners arrived on 26 August 2026. Thirty days of RadioJavan listening added 235,986 plays to a total of 202.2M. Set against the 8 June 2026 high of 266,392, the count is 23,730 lower. Since tracking began, 9 days is the longest the count has climbed without a down day.
11 of the past 30 readings came in above the day before.
Where the chart stands
Inside the top ten of 132 tracked Persian pop artists, Montiego sits 4th. The gap between Montiego and Mansour at the moment of the pass was 659 monthly listeners. One place up the chart is Erfan Tahmasbi, 53,489 monthly listeners ahead. At the top of the Persian pop chart sits Arash, on 14,935,378 monthly listeners.
The distance to Arash is 14,692,716 monthly listeners. Half the tracked Persian pop artists are above 57,128 monthly listeners and half below; this reading is 324.8% over that line. A cushion of 659 monthly listeners holds off Mansour in the place below. Measured against the whole tracked Persian pop field — 24.9M monthly listeners — the share works out at 0.97%.
The catalogue
Plays for “PARA” now stand at 73.9M. 48 songs credited to Montiego are tracked here, holding 201.6M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. Roughly one monthly listener in 18 has hit follow on Spotify. The split is 146.0M plays on Spotify against 55.6M on RadioJavan.
RadioJavan has logged 202.2M plays across all of the artist's music it hosts, which reaches wider than the songs indexed here. Of the 201.6M catalogue plays, 36.7% belong to “PARA”. FarsiChart's record starts at 2 January 2019 — 7.7 years of releases. 13,435 accounts follow along on Spotify.
That works out at an average of 4.2M plays a song across the 48 tracked. FarsiChart has logged this artist daily for 82 days; 28 August 2026 is the latest reading. The two figures measure different things — 242,662 is a Spotify monthly count, 201.6M is the running play total on both platforms.
Right now: 242,662 monthly Spotify listeners
