Sijal just passed Sepehr Khalse
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now #5 on the chart
It is a narrow pass: Sijal leads Sepehr Khalse by 774. 14 years and 196 tracks stand behind the position. The artist’s biggest track, “Fresh”, has 60,476,674 plays for comparison. Only 23,181 monthly listeners separate Sijal from Behzad Leito above. The strongest single day in the last month added 1,065 listeners, on 19 September 2026.
A place has changed hands on FarsiChart: Sijal has gone above Sepehr Khalse. Seven days have taken Sijal from 6th to 5th among tracked Persian rap artists.
How the numbers moved
Sijal has not drawn this many monthly listeners since 1 August 2026; the count reads 248,146 today. Over the last month monthly listeners are up 3.6%, a gain of 8,582. Followers are up 1.7% across the month, a gain of 4,601. The starting point seven days back was 246,182, a difference of 1,964.
Over 30 days the reading swung 8,582 listeners, from 239,564 at its lowest to 248,146 at its highest. Thirty days back the figure was 239,564 — a move of 8,582 since. One day did more than any other: 1,065 listeners arrived on 19 September 2026. RadioJavan added 7.5M plays in the past 30 days.
Set against the 3 July 2026 high of 255,516, the count is 7,370 lower. The weekly follower change is plus 937, against a total of 269,350. Week to week the count barely moved: up 1,964 listeners, 0.8%. Since tracking began, 17 days is the longest the count has climbed without a down day.
19 of the past 30 readings came in above the day before.
Where the chart stands
Only 4 Persian rap artists on FarsiChart carry more monthly listeners than Sijal. Sepehr Khalse stood on 247,372 monthly listeners when Sijal moved ahead, a margin of 774. Closing on Behzad Leito means finding 23,181 monthly listeners. Arta leads the Persian rap chart with 301,156 monthly listeners.
Catching Arta would take another 53,010 listeners. For context, the median tracked Persian rap artist sits on 53,251 monthly listeners, so this count runs 366% above the middle of the chart. But a cushion of 774 monthly listeners holds off Sepehr Khalse in the place below. Sijal accounts for 2.52% of the 9.8M monthly listeners the tracked Persian rap chart holds in total.
The catalogue
“Fresh” has passed 60.5M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. The tracked catalogue runs deep: 196 Sijal songs on FarsiChart, 1.13B plays between them. The split is 65.5M plays on Spotify against 1.07B on RadioJavan. On RadioJavan, the lifetime counter across every track it carries by the artist reads 2.12B.
The oldest release on file is dated 4 October 2012, which puts 14.0 years of music in the index. 269,350 accounts follow along on Spotify. Of the 196 songs on file, 18 are dated within the past year. For context, the 196 tracked songs average 5.8M plays apiece.
The figures come from 128 daily readings, the most recent taken on 28 September 2026. The 248,146 monthly listeners is Spotify’s own figure; the 1.13B plays combine Spotify and RadioJavan.
Right now: 248,146 monthly Spotify listeners
