Morteza Pashaei just passed TM Bax
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passed TM Bax to reach #11
Morteza Pashaei has moved past TM Bax on the FarsiChart artist ranking. The reading is current to 19 August 2026. That is 189.9% of the genre median for an artist. The genre median artist has 62,918 monthly listeners. 27 of the last thirty days finished higher than they started.
Persian pop artist Morteza Pashaei has overtaken TM Bax on FarsiChart. Monthly Spotify listeners reached 182,375 on 19 August 2026 — the highest figure in the 88 days FarsiChart has been tracking.
How the numbers moved
Seven days brought 2,487 additional monthly listeners, a 1.4% rise. That is 11 days in a row of gains, with no down day in between. Across thirty days the gain is 21,821 monthly listeners, or 13.6%. Spotify followers grew by 3,405 over the same 30 days, up 2.2%.
The starting point seven days back was 179,888, a difference of 2,487. Inside the last 30 days the count ran between 160,554 and 182,375, a spread of 21,821. The thirty-day starting point was 160,554, 21,821 short of the current reading. The strongest single day in that month was 27 July 2026, worth 2,445 listeners.
RadioJavan added 915,907 plays in the past 30 days. Seven days added 888 Spotify followers. Since tracking began, 22 days is the longest the count has climbed without a down day. The count rose on 27 of the last 30 daily readings.
Where the chart stands
The gap between Morteza Pashaei and TM Bax at the moment of the pass was 18,726 monthly listeners. Ranked by monthly listeners, that is 11th among 108 Persian pop artists. Closing on Behnam Bani means finding 8,454 monthly listeners. Thirty days ago that chart position was 14th, 3 places lower than today.
At the top of the Persian pop chart sits Arash, on 15,422,710 monthly listeners. The distance to Arash is 15,240,335 monthly listeners. Half the tracked Persian pop artists are above 62,918 monthly listeners and half below; this reading is 189.9% over that line. For context, one rank down sits Alireza Talischi, trailing by 3,961 monthly listeners.
That is 0.76% of the 24.1M monthly listeners the tracked Persian pop chart holds in total.
The catalogue
“Negarane Mani (Mahe Asal)” has passed 27.8M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. 56 songs credited to Morteza Pashaei are tracked here, holding 340.3M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. The split is 28.0M plays on Spotify against 312.3M on RadioJavan. On RadioJavan, the lifetime counter across every track it carries by the artist reads 416.3M.
13.9 years separate the earliest indexed release, on 25 September 2012, from today. 159,890 accounts follow along on Spotify. Of the 56 songs on file, 4 are dated within the past year. Spread over 56 songs, the catalogue averages 6.1M plays each.
Every number above comes from FarsiChart’s own daily tracking — 88 readings up to 19 August 2026. But two sources sit behind those numbers: Spotify for the 182,375 monthly listeners, Spotify and RadioJavan together for the 340.3M plays.
Right now: 182,375 monthly Spotify listeners
