"Nakhoda" gained 119,992 plays this week
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Barely 10 days out, “Nakhoda” is on 164,100 plays. It came out on 22 August 2026. Siavash Ghomayshi takes 3.7% of all monthly listening on the Classical chart. Googoosh is the next name up, 61,032 monthly listeners clear. A song this far down the list moving at all is the signal, not the position.
The 201,990 monthly listeners logged on 1 September 2026 is the highest reading across 101 days of tracking. “Nakhoda” dates to 22 August 2026, which puts it 10 days into circulation.
How the numbers moved
“Nakhoda” has 164,100 plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. That is 4,862 more monthly listeners than a week ago, up 2.5%. Alongside that, thirty days of tracking show 7,401 more monthly listeners, a 3.8% rise. Measured on weekly gain alone, the week places 8th out of 63 in Persian traditional.
The listener count has risen on each of the last 5 days. Followers are up 2.5% across the month, a gain of 12,982. Over 10 days on release, that is 16,410 plays a day. A week ago the figure was 197,128; it has moved up 4,862 since.
Over 30 days the reading swung 10,832 listeners, from 191,158 at its lowest to 201,990 at its highest. A month ago the reading stood at 194,589, 7,401 lower than now. Against that, the biggest daily jump of the month landed on 29 August 2026 — 1,420 listeners in 24 hours. RadioJavan added 5.0M plays in the past 30 days.
Seven days added 3,684 Spotify followers. Since tracking began, 17 days is the longest the count has climbed without a down day. Gains showed up on 21 separate days in the last month.
Where the chart stands
Among tracked Persian traditional songs, “Nakhoda” sits 4406th. Only 4 Persian traditional artists on FarsiChart carry more monthly listeners than Siavash Ghomayshi. One place up the chart is Googoosh, 61,032 monthly listeners ahead. At the top of the Persian traditional chart sits Moein, on 306,682 monthly listeners.
That leaves 104,692 listeners to make up on Moein. Seven days on, the place on the Persian traditional chart is still 5th. Against a chart median of 66,395, that is 204.2% ahead of the typical tracked Persian traditional artist. Against that, a cushion of 7,566 monthly listeners holds off Andy in the place below.
That is 3.65% of the 5.5M monthly listeners the tracked Persian traditional chart holds in total.
The catalogue
Plays for “Alaki” now stand at 64.5M. 127 songs in the tracked catalogue have more plays than “Nakhoda”. 140 songs credited to Siavash Ghomayshi are tracked here, holding 920.2M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. The previous release on file is dated 27 November 2025, 268 days earlier.
The Spotify following runs past half a million, at 541,316. Platform by platform: Spotify 51.4M, RadioJavan 868.8M. RadioJavan's own counter, spanning every track it hosts by the artist, stands at 942.0M plays. 48.7 years separate the earliest indexed release, on 1 January 1978, from today.
The last twelve months account for 3 of the 140 tracked releases. On the same measure, the 140 tracked songs average 6.6M plays apiece. The figures come from 101 daily readings, the most recent taken on 1 September 2026. The two figures measure different things — 201,990 is a Spotify monthly count, 920.2M is the running play total on both platforms.
Right now: 119,992 plays on RadioJavan
