After 3 years and some change, J-Rock Explosion has finally hit 100,000 views.  It’s been a bumpy ride with not a lot of highs and quite a few lows.  But I’d like to thank anyone who has stuck with me, linked to me on their blog, left a comment, my subscriber (it’s singular for a reason), and everyone  following me on Twitter.

If you don’t know me by now, my name is Andrew and I’ve been writing this blog by my lonesome this whole time. I’ve lived in the Chicago suburbs my entire life.  I’ve never been to Japan, or outside of this country for that matter, and at this rate probably never will.  I don’t understand a word of Japanese and at this point see no reason to learn.  I started this blog in my second year of college to “get back” at my favorite website for not posting about any of the bands I like, and you see how far that’s gotten me.  I managed to graduate last May with a degree in Communications arts and am still getting my ass kicked every night at UPS because I can’t find a real job.  If you want to know more about me or this blog, feel free to ask.

I didn’t plan anything for this “momentous” occasion, but I thought it’d be fun sharing some blog stats.

Top 10 Referrers:

1. wordpress.com/tag/back-on 219
2. wordpress.com/tag/anime-themes 147
3. wordpress.com/tag/beat-crusaders 146
4. wordpress.com/tag/oreskaband 126
5. wordpress.com/tag/nico-touches-the-wa… 114
6. wordpress.com/tag/ellegarden 111
7. unchained.nu/blog 82
8. intlwota.com 73
9. wordpress.com/tag/free-mp3 63
10. en.wordpress.com/tag/beat-crusaders 62

Top 10 Search Engine Terms:

1. dir en grey 7,145
2. beat crusaders 2,939
3. gackt 2,480
4. utada hikaru 1,133
5. ore ska band 891
6. asobi seksu 821
7. oreskaband 810
8. ellegarden 789
9. d’espairsray 733
10. halcali 679

Top 10 Clicks:

1. myspace.com/officialdirengrey 248
2. myspace.com/oreskabandus 245
3. beatcrusaders.bravehost.com 188
4. blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction… 158
5. myspace.com/capsulemyspace 155
6. absolutepunk.net/ellegarden 135
7. myspace.com/despairsray 133
8. myspace.com/ellegarden 133
9. myspace.com/gackt 129
10. myspace.com/olivialufkinofficial 119

Top 10 Posts:

Home page 67,178

1. Gackt Goes Hollywood 2,994
2. BEAT CRUSADERS- EPopMAKING 1,671
3. NICO Touches the Walls 1,164
4. MUCC and D’espairsRay on Taste of Chaos 1,122
5. Asobi Seksu Download 900
6. IMF channel (International Music Feed) 770
7. Anime Central 2008: Peelander-Z & HA 739
8. buddhistson- SLOWDANCE ~wisely and slow, 726
9. This Month in J-Rock: June 2008 656
10. new BACK-ON PV clip 536

Views by year:

2007: 25,349

2008: 37,694

2009: 31,668

Average views per day:

2007: 82

2008: 103

2009: 87