"Vay Vay" passes 1,000,000 plays
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“Vay Vay” has crossed a million: 1.1M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. The 134,179 monthly listeners logged on 1 September 2026 is the highest reading across 101 days of tracking.
How the numbers moved
Monthly listeners climbed by 4,174 over the week, worth 3.2%. Alongside that, thirty days of tracking show 16,724 more monthly listeners, a 14.2% rise. Meanwhile, that gain ranks 8th among the 63 artists on the Persian traditional chart this week. Followers are up 1.9% across the month, a gain of 569.
That averages 144 plays a day since release. A week ago the figure was 130,005; it has moved up 4,174 since. Inside the last 30 days the count ran between 116,193 and 134,179, a spread of 17,986. The thirty-day starting point was 117,455, 16,724 short of the current reading.
One day did more than any other: 2,521 listeners arrived on 11 August 2026. Thirty days of RadioJavan listening added 200,000 plays to a total of 56.2M. Seven days added 153 Spotify followers. Since tracking began, 8 days is the longest the count has climbed without a down day.
The count rose on 18 of the last 30 daily readings.
Where the chart stands
FarsiChart places “Vay Vay” 1859th on its Persian traditional song list. On the Persian traditional chart the ranking has gone from 14th a week ago to 13th today. The current position is 13th of 63 on FarsiChart’s Persian traditional chart. One place up the chart is Homayoun Shajarian, 8,198 monthly listeners ahead.
Moein leads the Persian traditional chart with 305,709 monthly listeners. Catching Moein would take another 171,530 listeners. On the same measure, the median tracked Persian traditional artist sits on 66,395 monthly listeners, so this count runs 102.1% above the middle of the chart. Against that, a cushion of 286 monthly listeners holds off Leila Forouhar in the place below.
Measured against the whole tracked Persian traditional field — 5.5M monthly listeners — the share works out at 2.43%.
The catalogue
7,548 days have passed since “Vay Vay” was released on 1 January 2006. Plays for “Kamar Baarik” now stand at 9.4M. Set against the rest of the catalogue, “Vay Vay” is the 12th most-played of the 89 songs tracked here. 89 songs credited to Faramarz Assef are tracked here, holding 59.7M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan.
The previous dated release came 1,461 days earlier, on 1 January 2002. Against 134,179 monthly listeners, Spotify shows 30,243 followers. RadioJavan carries 50.2M of those plays and Spotify 9.5M — 15.9% of the total is Spotify. RadioJavan's own counter, spanning every track it hosts by the artist, stands at 56.2M plays.
36.7 years separate the earliest indexed release, on 1 January 1990, from today. The Spotify follower count stands at 30,243. On the same measure, the 89 tracked songs average 670,383 plays apiece. The track carries 1.8% of every play in the tracked catalogue.
Every number above comes from FarsiChart’s own daily tracking — 101 readings up to 1 September 2026. The 134,179 monthly listeners is Spotify’s own figure; the 59.7M plays combine Spotify and RadioJavan.
Right now: 134,179 monthly Spotify listeners
