Never ones to blow our trumpet – ahem – it came as quite the surprise yesterday to learn that, according to Blogstorm, hecklerspray is now the UK’s fifth-biggest blog.

And, much like other famous fifth-placers like fifth-place 1983 Eurovision Song Contest entry Hoffmann & Hoffmann and the 2007 Venezuelan Softball World Cup squad, we’re going to party like bastards. How much are we going to party? Well, this time last year hecklerspray was the tenth-biggest UK blog and now we’re the fifth-biggest, so the answer is probably ‘twice as much as last year’. In case any of you wanted to know how Blogstorm calculated the ginormity of hecklerspray, here’s its explanation:

The Top 100 UK Blogs ranking was compiled by listing over 1400 UK blogs and calculating their popularity using the well known metrics of Alexa Ranking and Technorati Ranking for each site.

See? So we’re the Best Entertainment Blog in the UK according to Ask, Metro and a ginger Scottish man and the fifth-biggest overall UK blog according to some complicated calculations. And that honestly couldn’t have happened without you lot, so thanks – especially those of you who’ve been reading hecklerspray for a while and left comments and stuff. Next year we’ve calculated that we’ll be the second and a half biggest blog in the country, so thanks in advance for that, too.

Incidentally, Blogstorm has Belle De Jour listed as the UK’s 74th biggest blog. Since we’re clearly much bigger than that, we vow not to rest until hecklerspray is adapted into a glossy ITV2 drama about Billie Piper wanking off a load of blokes. For it is our destiny.

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Top 100 UK Blogs – Blogstorm