New release from Behzad Leito, Sepehr Khalse: "Penalty"
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Two releases in 9 days for Behzad Leito, the newest being “Penalty”. Behzad Leito has been releasing music for 15 years. The artist page shows 248,009 monthly listeners. RadioJavan plays across the whole catalogue rose 0.5% in thirty days. Whether it holds depends on the next few readings rather than this one.
Released on 23 August 2026, “Penalty” has been out one day. Only 2 Persian rap artists on FarsiChart carry more monthly listeners than Behzad Leito.
How the numbers moved
Measured over thirty days rather than seven, the drop is 5.7%, or 15,023 listeners. Spotify followers grew by 8,033 over the same 30 days, up 1.3%. Alongside that, a week ago the figure was 246,908; it has moved up 1,101 since. Over 30 days the reading swung 17,678 listeners, from 245,354 at its lowest to 263,032 at its highest.
Thirty days back the figure was 263,032 — a move of 15,023 since. The biggest daily jump of the month landed on 18 August 2026 — 881 listeners in 24 hours. FarsiChart logged 271,035 on 6 July 2026; the current figure is 23,026 short of that. Seven days added 2,154 Spotify followers.
Week to week the count barely moved: up 1,101 listeners, 0.4%. Since tracking began, 17 days is the longest the count has climbed without a down day. 8 of the past 30 readings came in above the day before.
Where the chart stands
The next position belongs to Koorosh, and the gap to it is 20,695 monthly listeners. At the top of the Persian rap chart sits Arta, on 283,752 monthly listeners. Catching Arta would take another 35,743 listeners. The Persian rap ranking is unchanged from a week ago at 3rd.
Against a chart median of 56,390, that is 339.8% ahead of the typical tracked Persian rap artist. On the same measure, one rank down sits Amir Tataloo, trailing by 2,261 monthly listeners. Measured against the whole tracked Persian rap field — 8.2M monthly listeners — the share works out at 3.01%.
The catalogue
Plays for “Business” now stand at 57.6M. The release is credited to Behzad Leito with Sepehr Khalse. FarsiChart indexes 192 Behzad Leito songs, a catalogue of 1.40B plays. Spotify puts the follower count at 623,419, above half a million.
Platform by platform: Spotify 84.7M, RadioJavan 1.31B. On RadioJavan, the lifetime counter across every track it carries by the artist reads 2.39B. FarsiChart's record starts at 9 August 2011 — 15.0 years of releases. 17 of those 192 tracked songs carry a release date inside the last twelve months.
Spread over 192 songs, the catalogue averages 7.3M plays each. FarsiChart has logged this artist daily for 93 days; 24 August 2026 is the latest reading. The 248,009 monthly listeners is Spotify’s own figure; the 1.40B plays combine Spotify and RadioJavan.
