"Sakhteh" passes 5,000,000 plays
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“Sakhteh” has crossed a million: 5.0M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. No day in FarsiChart’s 124-day tracking window has produced a higher figure than the 216,417 monthly listeners read on 24 September 2026.
How the numbers moved
Seven days brought 4,419 additional monthly listeners, a 2.1% rise. Over the last month monthly listeners are up 11.5%, a gain of 22,304. Spotify followers grew by 1,559 over the same 30 days, up 2.5%. Over 4,649 days on release, that is 1,076 plays a day.
A week ago the figure was 211,998; it has moved up 4,419 since. Inside the last 30 days the count ran between 194,113 and 216,417, a spread of 22,304. The thirty-day starting point was 194,113, 22,304 short of the current reading. The biggest daily jump of the month landed on 12 September 2026 — 2,163 listeners in 24 hours.
Thirty days of RadioJavan listening added 1.0M plays to a total of 208.0M. Across the last seven days the Spotify following moved up 543. Across 124 tracked days the best consecutive run came to 17 days of gains. Alongside that, the count rose on 26 of the last 30 daily readings.
Where the chart stands
Among tracked Persian pop songs, “Sakhteh” sits 2212th. Black Cats has climbed to 8th on the FarsiChart Persian pop chart, from 9th a week ago. Only 7 Persian pop artists on FarsiChart carry more monthly listeners than Black Cats. 580 monthly listeners separate this reading from Montiego, the artist one rank higher.
The Persian pop leader is Arash, on 13,727,557 monthly listeners. Catching Arash would take another 13,511,140 listeners. On the same measure, the median tracked Persian pop artist sits on 54,273 monthly listeners, so this count runs 298.8% above the middle of the chart. Against that, a cushion of 13,009 monthly listeners holds off Majid Razavi in the place below.
That is 0.89% of the 24.4M monthly listeners the tracked Persian pop chart holds in total.
The catalogue
“Sakhteh” dates to 1 January 2014, which puts it 4,649 days into circulation. On the same measure, the catalogue’s biggest track, “Dafi Joon”, sits on 38.3M plays. Among those 126 tracked songs, “Sakhteh” places 16th by plays. FarsiChart indexes 126 Black Cats songs, a catalogue of 226.0M plays.
32 days passed between this release and the one before it, on 30 November 2013. 63,250 Spotify followers sit behind a monthly listener count of 216,417. Platform by platform: Spotify 32.2M, RadioJavan 193.8M. RadioJavan's own counter, spanning every track it hosts by the artist, stands at 208.0M plays.
FarsiChart's record starts at 1 January 1992 — 34.7 years of releases. On Spotify the follower total is 63,250. For context, the 126 tracked songs average 1.8M plays apiece. That single song is 2.2% of the catalogue's whole play total.
FarsiChart has logged this artist daily for 124 days; 24 September 2026 is the latest reading. The 216,417 monthly listeners is Spotify’s own figure; the 226.0M plays combine Spotify and RadioJavan.
Right now: 216,417 monthly Spotify listeners
