Shahin Najafi just passed Zedbazi
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passed Zedbazi to reach #14
Shahin Najafi is now in front of Zedbazi, though only by 375 monthly listeners. Shahin Najafi has 130 tracks on record. 368,996 people follow the artist on Spotify. Followers went the other way: up 1.8% across the month. 26 of the last thirty days finished higher than they started.
Persian rap artist Shahin Najafi has overtaken Zedbazi on FarsiChart. No day in FarsiChart’s 95-day tracking window has produced a higher figure than the 155,205 monthly listeners read on 26 August 2026.
How the numbers moved
No other artist on the 120-strong Persian rap chart gained more listeners over the same week. A month of tracking shows 52.8% growth — 53,637 monthly listeners. Seven days brought 8,443 additional monthly listeners, a 5.8% rise. Alongside that, this is not a one-day blip — the rise runs across 18 consecutive daily readings.
Spotify followers grew by 6,386 over the same 30 days, up 1.8%. Meanwhile, a week ago the figure was 146,762; it has moved up 8,443 since. Over 30 days the reading swung 53,824 listeners, from 101,381 at its lowest to 155,205 at its highest. A month ago the reading stood at 101,568, 53,637 lower than now.
The strongest single day in that month was 9 August 2026, worth 6,149 listeners. The RadioJavan counter is 3.9M plays higher than it was a month ago, up 8.1%. The weekly follower change is plus 1,209, against a total of 368,996. Across 95 tracked days the best consecutive run came to 18 days of gains.
The count rose on 26 of the last 30 daily readings.
Where the chart stands
Shahin Najafi has climbed to 14th on the FarsiChart Persian rap chart, from 16th a week ago. Shahin Najafi opened a margin of 375 monthly listeners over Zedbazi. The current position is 14th of 120 on FarsiChart’s Persian rap chart. 5,387 monthly listeners separate this reading from Heliyom, the artist one rank higher.
The Persian rap leader is Arta, on 285,959 monthly listeners. Catching Arta would take another 130,754 listeners. Against a chart median of 55,410, that is 180.1% ahead of the typical tracked Persian rap artist. On the same measure, one rank down sits Zedbazi, trailing by 375 monthly listeners.
Every tracked Persian rap artist together holds 8.5M monthly listeners, and 1.82% of them are here.
The catalogue
“Mastam Baat” has passed 8.7M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. FarsiChart indexes 130 Shahin Najafi songs, a catalogue of 66.5M plays. RadioJavan carries 17.7M of those plays and Spotify 48.8M — 73.3% of the total is Spotify. RadioJavan's own counter, spanning every track it hosts by the artist, stands at 51.6M plays.
FarsiChart's record starts at 1 January 2012 — 14.7 years of releases. 368,996 accounts follow along on Spotify. The last twelve months account for 4 of the 130 tracked releases. On the same measure, the 130 tracked songs average 511,792 plays apiece.
The figures come from 95 daily readings, the most recent taken on 26 August 2026. The 155,205 monthly listeners is Spotify’s own figure; the 66.5M plays combine Spotify and RadioJavan.
Right now: 155,205 monthly Spotify listeners
