Shahin Najafi just passed The Don
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passed The Don to reach #15
Shahin Najafi has moved ahead of The Don by 176 monthly listeners, which is close enough to change back. Shahin Najafi has 103 tracks on record. That is 163.9% of the genre median for an artist. Arta leads the genre on 281,382 monthly listeners, 134,620 ahead. The strongest single day in the last month added 6,149 listeners, on 9 August 2026.
Shahin Najafi has moved ahead of The Don on FarsiChart’s monthly listener ranking. The 146,762 monthly listeners logged on 20 August 2026 is the highest reading across 89 days of tracking.
How the numbers moved
Across all 111 artists on the Persian rap chart, that is the largest weekly gain. Stretch the window to thirty days and the rise is 43.5%, or 44,491 monthly listeners. Monthly listeners climbed by 15,822 over the week, worth 12.1%. That is 12 days in a row of gains, with no down day in between.
Thirty days brought 5,616 new Spotify followers, taking the total to 367,577. Alongside that, seven days ago the reading was 130,940, 15,822 below where it stands now. Against that, the monthly high is 146,762 and the low 101,381 — 45,381 listeners apart. The thirty-day starting point was 102,271, 44,491 short of the current reading.
One day did more than any other: 6,149 listeners arrived on 9 August 2026. Thirty days of RadioJavan listening added 3.4M plays to a total of 50.8M. The weekly follower change is plus 1,479, against a total of 367,577. Since tracking began, 17 days is the longest the count has climbed without a down day.
The count rose on 22 of the last 30 daily readings.
Where the chart stands
On the Persian rap chart the ranking has gone from 18th a week ago to 15th today. The gap between Shahin Najafi and The Don at the moment of the pass was 176 monthly listeners. Ranked by monthly listeners, that is 15th among 111 Persian rap artists. Closing on Zedbazi means finding 8,057 monthly listeners.
At the top of the Persian rap chart sits Arta, on 281,382 monthly listeners. The distance to Arta is 134,620 monthly listeners. Half the tracked Persian rap artists are above 55,623 monthly listeners and half below; this reading is 163.9% over that line. A cushion of 176 monthly listeners holds off The Don in the place below.
That is 1.79% of the 8.2M monthly listeners the tracked Persian rap chart holds in total.
The catalogue
“Mastam Baat” has passed 8.6M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. FarsiChart indexes 103 Shahin Najafi songs, a catalogue of 61.1M plays. RadioJavan carries 17.9M of those plays and Spotify 43.2M — 70.7% of the total is Spotify. RadioJavan has logged 50.8M 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 2012 — 14.6 years of releases. On Spotify the follower total is 367,577. 2 of those 103 tracked songs carry a release date inside the last twelve months. On the same measure, that works out at an average of 593,108 plays a song across the 103 tracked.
FarsiChart has logged this artist daily for 89 days; 20 August 2026 is the latest reading. The 146,762 monthly listeners is Spotify’s own figure; the 61.1M plays combine Spotify and RadioJavan.
Right now: 146,762 monthly Spotify listeners
