"Vel Besho" is breaking out
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A 493-day-old track is not usually the one moving, but “Vel Besho” is. Everything here has happened since 15 April 2025. Behzad Leito takes 3% of all monthly listening on the Rap chart. Most artists in this genre sit around 56,141 monthly listeners. Followers rising while listening falls usually means an audience that stayed but played less.
“Vel Besho” has crossed a million: 5.7M plays across Spotify and RadioJavan. 493 days have passed since “Vel Besho” was released on 15 April 2025.
How the numbers moved
Over thirty days the direction is down: 15,240 monthly listeners lost, off 5.8%. Against that, the follower count added 7,856 in a month, a 1.3% rise to 622,420. On the same measure, that averages 11,611 plays a day since release. Seven days ago the reading was 245,760, 2,192 below where it stands now.
Over 30 days the reading swung 17,838 listeners, from 245,354 at its lowest to 263,192 at its highest. Thirty days back the figure was 263,192 — a move of 15,240 since. One day did more than any other: 881 listeners arrived on 18 August 2026. FarsiChart logged 271,035 on 6 July 2026; the current figure is 23,083 short of that.
Across the last seven days the Spotify following moved up 2,072. Little shifted over the week: 0.9%, or 2,192 listeners up. Since tracking began, 17 days is the longest the count has climbed without a down day. 8 of the past 30 readings came in above the day before.
Where the chart stands
“Vel Besho” ranks 659th among the Persian rap songs FarsiChart tracks. Only 2 Persian rap artists on FarsiChart carry more monthly listeners than Behzad Leito. One place up the chart is Koorosh, 19,815 monthly listeners ahead. At the top of the Persian rap chart sits Arta, on 282,216 monthly listeners.
The distance to Arta is 34,264 monthly listeners. Seven days on, the place on the Persian rap chart is still 3rd. Against a chart median of 56,141, that is 341.7% ahead of the typical tracked Persian rap artist. Against that, the nearest artist below is Amir Tataloo, 2,060 monthly listeners back.
Every tracked Persian rap artist together holds 8.2M monthly listeners, and 3.02% of them are here.
The catalogue
The catalogue’s biggest track, “Business”, sits on 57.6M plays. Set against the rest of the catalogue, “Vel Besho” is the 65th most-played of the 174 songs tracked here. The release is credited to Behzad Leito with Sepehr Khalse and Young Sudden. FarsiChart indexes 174 Behzad Leito songs, a catalogue of 1.31B plays.
Spotify puts the follower count at 622,420, above half a million. RadioJavan carries 1.23B of those plays and Spotify 85.2M — 6.5% of the total is Spotify. RadioJavan's own counter, spanning every track it hosts by the artist, stands at 2.39B plays. 14.9 years separate the earliest indexed release, on 7 October 2011, from today.
Of the 174 songs on file, 16 are dated within the past year. On the same measure, that works out at an average of 7.6M plays a song across the 174 tracked. FarsiChart has logged this artist daily for 90 days; 21 August 2026 is the latest reading. The two figures measure different things — 247,952 is a Spotify monthly count, 1.31B is the running play total on both platforms.
Right now: 5,716,962 plays on RadioJavan
