Zedbazi just passed Shahin Najafi
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372 monthly listeners now separate Zedbazi from Shahin Najafi. The reading is current to 1 September 2026. 409,252 people follow the artist on Spotify. Shahin Najafi sits just below, 372 monthly listeners back. For a 22-year catalogue, movement of this kind is worth noting.
Zedbazi has moved ahead of Shahin Najafi on FarsiChart’s monthly listener ranking. The last reading at or above 157,540 monthly listeners came on 3 August 2026.
How the numbers moved
The past seven days added 2,977 monthly listeners, a gain of 1.9%. Measured over thirty days rather than seven, the drop is 1.2%, or 1,880 listeners. Against that, the listener count has risen on each of the last 5 days. Followers are up 1.1% across the month, a gain of 4,447.
Seven days ago the reading was 154,563, 2,977 below where it stands now. Inside the last 30 days the count ran between 150,375 and 159,420, a spread of 9,045. Thirty days back the figure was 159,420 — a move of 1,880 since. One day did more than any other: 1,087 listeners arrived on 13 August 2026.
The RadioJavan counter is 2.0M plays higher than it was a month ago, up 0.3%. On the same measure, the high point of the tracking window remains 172,881 on 3 July 2026, 15,341 above where the count sits now. Seven days added 1,130 Spotify followers. Since tracking began, 17 days is the longest the count has climbed without a down day.
Gains showed up on 17 separate days in the last month.
Where the chart stands
Zedbazi opened a margin of 372 monthly listeners over Shahin Najafi. Out of 120 Persian rap artists FarsiChart ranks, that is 14th. Closing on Heliyom means finding 3,506 monthly listeners. On the same measure, a month ago the position on that chart was 13th, 1 place above where it sits now.
The Persian rap leader is Arta, on 290,484 monthly listeners. The distance to Arta is 132,944 monthly listeners. For context, the median tracked Persian rap artist sits on 55,929 monthly listeners, so this count runs 181.7% above the middle of the chart. Against that, a cushion of 372 monthly listeners holds off Shahin Najafi in the place below.
That is 1.81% of the 8.7M monthly listeners the tracked Persian rap chart holds in total.
The catalogue
The catalogue’s biggest track, “Tabestoon Kootahe”, sits on 59.8M plays. FarsiChart indexes 54 Zedbazi songs, a catalogue of 605.3M plays. Platform by platform: Spotify 5.8M, RadioJavan 599.6M. RadioJavan has logged 615.0M plays across all of the artist's music it hosts, which reaches wider than the songs indexed here.
22.7 years separate the earliest indexed release, on 1 January 2004, from today. On Spotify the follower total is 409,252. Spread over 54 songs, the catalogue averages 11.2M plays each. The figures come from 101 daily readings, the most recent taken on 1 September 2026.
The two figures measure different things — 157,540 is a Spotify monthly count, 605.3M is the running play total on both platforms.
Right now: 157,540 monthly Spotify listeners
