There is only one reason why Live365.com named the Y100Rocks.com webcast their 2005 Best Alternative Rock Station and Best Community Station a little more than 2 months after it started: OUR LISTENERS. We love what we play for you, and you love us right back. Live365 helps keep track of who listens to us and when -- basically, how much love is really in the room.

Beyond the Boston-to-DC corridor that includes NYC and greater Philadelphia, our largest U.S. listenerships are located in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, and Phoenix. Our coolest listeners, however, reside in Fairbanks, Alaska! (At least temperature-wise...)

Other than the PA/NJ/DE tri-state area, we have our biggest fan bases in California, New York, Florida, Texas, Virginia, Colorado, and Massachusetts. North Dakota brings up the rear, but we thank all fifty states for their support!

The Internet now gives us global spread, too. Outside of English-speaking nations, we get many of our international fans from Germany, Japan, Mexico, France, Brazil, Spain, and the Philippines. Actually, we have friends bravely listening in Iraq and China... listening from one pole (Chile) to the other (Greenland)... listening from the world's highest point (Nepal) to its lowest (Israel).

All these locations are pretty sweet, but there are some hard numbers that are even sweeter.

Out of approximately 1,000 alternative stations hosted by Live365.com, our listeners rank us in the top 3. Out of approximately 10,000 total stations hosted by Live365.com, listeners rank us in the top 50. Keep showing us love and keep spreading the word, because we want to be #1.

When WPLY 100.3 FM was silenced at the end of February, it was estimated that at least 500,000 Philadelphia-area alt-rock fans were disenfranchised from terrestrial radio. Our webcast passed the landmark of 500,000 streams launched back in July. Keep showing us love and keep spreading the word, because we want your help to have great music hit willing ears 1 million freaking times by our first birthday.

That would be a statement that modern rock -- heck, any rock in any radio format -- isn't dead, but is in fact at least twice as strong as the so-called experts think.


--Adam B.