Shahram Shabpareh just passed Mahasti
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Shahram Shabpareh passed Mahasti this week by 666 monthly listeners. The reading is current to 2 October 2026. 240 tracks make up the catalogue it belongs to. Mahasti holds 183,174 monthly listeners on the same reading. 38 years in, the catalogue is still adding.
Persian traditional artist Shahram Shabpareh has overtaken Mahasti on FarsiChart. Monthly Spotify listeners reached 183,840 on 2 October 2026 — the highest figure in the 132 days FarsiChart has been tracking.
How the numbers moved
Seven days brought 4,242 additional monthly listeners, a 2.4% rise. Alongside that, thirty days of tracking show 27,447 more monthly listeners, a 17.6% rise. Only 7 Persian traditional artists added more listeners over the same seven days. Against that, thirty days brought 2,081 new Spotify followers, taking the total to 116,414.
A week ago the figure was 179,598; it has moved up 4,242 since. Meanwhile, the monthly high is 183,840 and the low 156,393 — 27,447 listeners apart. The thirty-day starting point was 156,393, 27,447 short of the current reading. The strongest single day in that month was 19 September 2026, worth 3,848 listeners.
The RadioJavan counter is 2.0M plays higher than it was a month ago, up 0.8%. Across the last seven days the Spotify following moved up 500. Since tracking began, 17 days is the longest the count has climbed without a down day. 24 of the past 30 readings came in above the day before.
Where the chart stands
Shahram Shabpareh has climbed to 9th on the FarsiChart Persian traditional chart, from 10th a week ago. Inside the top ten of 93 tracked Persian traditional artists, Shahram Shabpareh sits 9th. 666 monthly listeners separated Shahram Shabpareh from Mahasti on the day the order changed. Closing on Dariush means finding 9,897 monthly listeners.
At the top of the Persian traditional chart sits Hayedeh, on 329,592 monthly listeners. The distance to Hayedeh is 145,752 monthly listeners. On the same measure, the median tracked Persian traditional artist sits on 45,157 monthly listeners, so this count runs 307.1% above the middle of the chart. For context, one rank down sits Mahasti, trailing by 666 monthly listeners.
Shahram Shabpareh accounts for 2.76% of the 6.7M monthly listeners the tracked Persian traditional chart holds in total.
The catalogue
“Vay Vay” has passed 14.0M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. FarsiChart indexes 240 Shahram Shabpareh songs, a catalogue of 271.7M plays. The split is 28.9M plays on Spotify against 242.8M on RadioJavan. RadioJavan's own counter, spanning every track it hosts by the artist, stands at 266.0M plays.
The oldest release on file is dated 1 January 1988, which puts 38.8 years of music in the index. 116,414 accounts follow along on Spotify. Spread over 240 songs, the catalogue averages 1.1M plays each. FarsiChart has logged this artist daily for 132 days; 2 October 2026 is the latest reading.
The two figures measure different things — 183,840 is a Spotify monthly count, 271.7M is the running play total on both platforms.
Right now: 183,840 monthly Spotify listeners
