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Since I am a stat geek, I thought it might be interesting to disclose the worldwide reach of the Online Folk Festival radio juggernaut.

Based on listener IP statistics generated by Live365.com, in the last 30 days I had over 30 minutes of listening from people in the following countries:

• United States
• United Kingdom
• Canada
• Spain
• Germany
• Israel
• Italy
• Japan
• Netherlands
• France
• Australia
• Belgium
• People's Republic of China
• Turkey
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• India
• Denmark
• Republic of Korea
• Argentina
• Malaysia
• Czech Republic
• New Zealand
• Poland
• Finland

Listeners from 12 additional countries stopped by less than 30 minutes total.

Of the 51 state equivalents of the US (counting DC), again using the 30 minute cutoff, there were listeners from 41 states, with an additional 4 states providing less than 30 minutes listening.

Top States: California, Ohio, New York, Iowa and Maryland.

States missing in action: Delaware, Mississippi, Nevada, North Dakota, West Virginia and Wyoming. Call or e-mail your friends in those states and tell them to listen. Right now. ;)

By metro area, there were 86 metro areas represented with over a half hour of listening, with the largest being Columbus, of course, driven by my own listening, followed by Cedar Rapids-Waterloo-Dubuque (IA), Rochester (NY), San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose (CA) and Baltimore.