Shadmehr Aghili just passed Montiego
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now #6 on the chart
Shadmehr Aghili is now in front of Montiego, though only by 1,540 monthly listeners. 32 years and 222 tracks stand behind the position. 703,847 people follow the artist on Spotify. Montiego holds 219,526 monthly listeners on the same reading. The next reading will say whether this is a spike or a shift.
Persian pop artist Shadmehr Aghili has overtaken Montiego on FarsiChart. On the Persian pop chart the ranking has gone from 7th a week ago to 6th today.
How the numbers moved
Seven days brought 2,982 additional monthly listeners, a 1.4% rise. Meanwhile, thirty days of tracking show 11,866 more monthly listeners, a 5.7% rise. The tracked high of 221,276, reached on 20 September 2026, is 210 listeners away. Spotify followers grew by 9,690 over the same 30 days, up 1.4%.
A week ago the figure was 218,084; it has moved up 2,982 since. Alongside that, the monthly high is 221,276 and the low 209,200 — 12,076 listeners apart. Thirty days back the figure was 209,200 — a move of 11,866 since. The strongest single day in that month was 31 August 2026, worth 1,508 listeners.
The RadioJavan counter is 10.0M plays higher than it was a month ago, up 0.3%. Seven days added 2,391 Spotify followers. The longest unbroken run of daily gains in the 122 days on file is 17 days. Gains showed up on 22 separate days in the last month.
Where the chart stands
Only 5 Persian pop artists on FarsiChart carry more monthly listeners than Shadmehr Aghili. Shadmehr Aghili went past Montiego by 1,540 monthly listeners. Closing on Mansour means finding 16,198 monthly listeners. The Persian pop leader is Arash, on 13,724,696 monthly listeners.
The distance to Arash is 13,503,630 monthly listeners. For context, the median tracked Persian pop artist sits on 54,648 monthly listeners, so this count runs 304.5% above the middle of the chart. On the same measure, one rank down sits Montiego, trailing by 1,540 monthly listeners. That is 0.91% of the 24.4M monthly listeners the tracked Persian pop chart holds in total.
The catalogue
“Bi Ehsas” has passed 120.9M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. FarsiChart indexes 222 Shadmehr Aghili songs, a catalogue of 2.87B plays. Spotify puts the follower count at 703,847, above half a million. 0.5% of the catalogue's plays come from Spotify, the rest from RadioJavan.
RadioJavan has logged 2.99B plays across all of the artist's music it hosts, which reaches wider than the songs indexed here. FarsiChart's record starts at 1 January 1994 — 32.7 years of releases. Of the 222 songs on file, 4 are dated within the past year. For context, the 222 tracked songs average 12.9M plays apiece.
Every number above comes from FarsiChart’s own daily tracking — 122 readings up to 22 September 2026. The 221,066 monthly listeners is Spotify’s own figure; the 2.87B plays combine Spotify and RadioJavan.
Right now: 221,066 monthly Spotify listeners
