The Don just passed Shahin Najafi
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passed Shahin Najafi to reach #15
The two are almost level. The Don holds a 35-listener lead over Shahin Najafi. This is where The Don stands as of 20 August 2026. The artist’s biggest track, “Saaghi”, has 61,957,784 plays for comparison. RadioJavan plays across the whole catalogue rose 0.4% in thirty days. The longest unbroken run of gains this month was 17 days.
Shahin Najafi has given up ground to The Don on the monthly listener count FarsiChart ranks by.
How the numbers moved
Over thirty days the direction is down: 6,980 monthly listeners lost, off 4.5%. Against that, the listener count has risen on each of the last 5 days. Alongside that, the follower count added 3,323 in a month, a 1.5% rise to 232,420. The starting point seven days back was 146,105, a difference of 692.
Over 30 days the reading swung 7,880 listeners, from 145,969 at its lowest to 153,849 at its highest. The thirty-day starting point was 153,777, 6,980 above the current reading. Meanwhile, the biggest daily jump of the month landed on 18 August 2026 — 383 listeners in 24 hours. Thirty days of RadioJavan listening added 2.4M plays to a total of 555.9M.
Set against the 3 July 2026 high of 156,482, the count is 9,685 lower. Seven days added 829 Spotify followers. The seven-day change is small — 692 listeners up, 0.5%. Across 89 tracked days the best consecutive run came to 17 days of gains.
Gains showed up on 9 separate days in the last month. Most of the Persian rap chart — 59 of its 111 artists — gained more listeners over the same week.
Where the chart stands
The gap between The Don and Shahin Najafi at the moment of the pass was 35 monthly listeners. Ranked by monthly listeners, that is 15th among 111 Persian rap artists. One place up the chart is Zedbazi, 8,022 monthly listeners ahead. On the same measure, a month ago the position on that chart was 14th, 1 place above where it sits now.
At the top of the Persian rap chart sits Arta, on 282,216 monthly listeners. Catching Arta would take another 135,419 listeners. Half the tracked Persian rap artists are above 56,141 monthly listeners and half below; this reading is 161.5% over that line. For context, one rank down sits Shahin Najafi, trailing by 35 monthly listeners.
That is 1.79% of the 8.2M monthly listeners the tracked Persian rap chart holds in total.
The catalogue
The catalogue’s biggest track, “Saaghi”, sits on 62.0M plays. 64 songs credited to The Don are tracked here, holding 432.6M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. RadioJavan carries 410.8M of those plays and Spotify 21.7M — 5% of the total is Spotify. RadioJavan's own counter, spanning every track it hosts by the artist, stands at 555.9M plays.
The oldest release on file is dated 11 July 2011, which puts 15.1 years of music in the index. 232,420 accounts follow along on Spotify. The last twelve months account for 3 of the 64 tracked releases. On the same measure, that works out at an average of 6.8M plays a song across the 64 tracked.
FarsiChart has logged this artist daily for 89 days; 20 August 2026 is the latest reading. The two figures measure different things — 146,797 is a Spotify monthly count, 432.6M is the running play total on both platforms.
Right now: 146,797 monthly Spotify listeners
