Rooydad just passed Aref
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now #12 on the chart
120 monthly listeners now separate Rooydad from Aref. The catalogue behind the name runs to 33 tracks. The artist’s biggest track, “A Gray Day”, has 2,687,434 plays for comparison. Rooydad is 12th in the genre and was 22nd a month ago. The artist is still 184,841 monthly listeners from the top of the genre.
Persian traditional artist Rooydad has overtaken Aref on FarsiChart. Monthly Spotify listeners reached 145,396 on 9 October 2026 — the highest figure in the 52 days FarsiChart has been tracking.
How the numbers moved
On the Persian traditional chart, 92 artists deep, 2 posted a larger seven-day gain. Stretch the window to thirty days and the rise is 34%, or 36,867 monthly listeners. Monthly listeners climbed by 6,188 over the week, worth 4.4%. Meanwhile, the listener count has risen on each of the last 3 days.
The follower count added 38 in a month, a 4% rise to 980. The starting point seven days back was 139,208, a difference of 6,188. The monthly high is 145,396 and the low 108,529 — 36,867 listeners apart. But a month ago the reading stood at 108,529, 36,867 lower than now.
The biggest daily jump of the month landed on 26 September 2026 — 3,356 listeners in 24 hours. Across 52 tracked days the best consecutive run came to 5 days of gains. Alongside that, the count rose on 22 of the last 30 daily readings.
Where the chart stands
Rooydad has climbed to 12th on the FarsiChart Persian traditional chart, from 15th a week ago. The gap between Rooydad and Aref at the moment of the pass was 120 monthly listeners. Ranked by monthly listeners, Rooydad is 12th among 92 Persian traditional artists. 17,228 monthly listeners separate this reading from Viguen, the artist one rank higher.
The Persian traditional leader is Hayedeh, on 330,237 monthly listeners. The distance to Hayedeh is 184,841 monthly listeners. For context, the median tracked Persian traditional artist sits on 46,076 monthly listeners, so this count runs 215.6% above the middle of the chart. On the same measure, one rank down sits Aref, trailing by 120 monthly listeners.
Every tracked Persian traditional artist together holds 6.7M monthly listeners, and 2.16% of them are here.
The catalogue
The catalogue’s biggest track, “A Gray Day”, sits on 2.7M plays. The tracked catalogue runs deep: 33 Rooydad songs on FarsiChart, 6.6M plays between them. Against 145,396 monthly listeners, Spotify shows 980 followers. “A Gray Day” alone accounts for 40.9% of every play in the tracked catalogue.
980 accounts follow along on Spotify. Spread over 33 songs, the catalogue averages 198,900 plays each. Every number above comes from FarsiChart’s own daily tracking — 52 readings up to 9 October 2026. The two figures measure different things — 145,396 is a Spotify monthly count, 6.6M is the running play total on both platforms.
Right now: 145,396 monthly Spotify listeners
