New release from Siavash Ghomayshi: "Nakhoda"
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The gap was 270 days. “Nakhoda” closes it. The reading is current to 25 August 2026. Siavash Ghomayshi sits 5th of 60 artists in the genre. That is against a high of 197,128 reached on 25 August 2026. The next reading will say whether this is a spike or a shift.
“Nakhoda” came out on 24 August 2026, one day ago. Monthly Spotify listeners reached 197,128 on 25 August 2026 — the highest figure in the 94 days FarsiChart has been tracking.
How the numbers moved
That is 2,313 more monthly listeners than a week ago, up 1.2%. That is 14 days in a row of gains, with no down day in between. Over the last month monthly listeners are up 2.8%, a gain of 5,388. Measured on weekly gain alone, the week places 10th out of 60 in Persian traditional.
Spotify followers grew by 11,797 over the same 30 days, up 2.2%. Alongside that, a week ago the figure was 194,815; it has moved up 2,313 since. Meanwhile, the monthly high is 197,128 and the low 191,158 — 5,970 listeners apart. Against that, a month ago the reading stood at 191,740, 5,388 lower than now.
The strongest single day in that month was 27 July 2026, worth 1,474 listeners. The RadioJavan counter is 5.0M plays higher than it was a month ago, up 0.5%. Seven days added 2,852 Spotify followers. Since tracking began, 17 days is the longest the count has climbed without a down day.
Gains showed up on 20 separate days in the last month.
Where the chart stands
Inside the top ten of 60 tracked Persian traditional artists, Siavash Ghomayshi sits 5th. 61,109 monthly listeners separate this reading from Googoosh, the artist one rank higher. Moein leads the Persian traditional chart with 300,937 monthly listeners. The distance to Moein is 103,809 monthly listeners.
No change in rank over the week: 5th on the Persian traditional chart. On the same measure, the median tracked Persian traditional artist sits on 62,328 monthly listeners, so this count runs 216.3% above the middle of the chart. Against that, a cushion of 7,139 monthly listeners holds off Andy in the place below. That is 3.80% of the 5.2M monthly listeners the tracked Persian traditional chart holds in total.
The catalogue
Plays for “Alaki” now stand at 64.5M. The tracked catalogue runs deep: 138 Siavash Ghomayshi songs on FarsiChart, 917.7M plays between them. 270 days passed between this release and the one before it, on 27 November 2025. The Spotify following runs past half a million, at 537,142.
The split is 50.5M plays on Spotify against 867.2M on RadioJavan. On RadioJavan, the lifetime counter across every track it carries by the artist reads 941.0M. 48.6 years separate the earliest indexed release, on 1 January 1978, from today. Of the 138 songs on file, 2 are dated within the past year.
Spread over 138 songs, the catalogue averages 6.6M plays each. Every number above comes from FarsiChart’s own daily tracking — 94 readings up to 25 August 2026. Against that, two sources sit behind those numbers: Spotify for the 197,128 monthly listeners, Spotify and RadioJavan together for the 917.7M plays.
