We were feeling pretty good about hitting 100,000K members this week until we learned from our friends at Billboard that 97.5 Million votes were cast for last night’s American Idol finale, won by David Cook. The former bartender from Missouri captured 56% of the votes… almost exactly the same percentage predicted in a recent poll of Hey! Nielsen members who went for Cook 57% to 43% over his competition, 17-year-old David Archuleta.

In the month leading up to the finals, the buzz on Cook (tracked by Nielsen Online’s BlogPulse) was consistently edging out Archuleta’s — and then spiked last night for the finale, accounting for nearly .5% of all blog posts tracked by Nielsen.

After the announcement that he had won, Cook, despite claiming he was at a loss for words, was able to tell host Ryan Seacrest: “I am absolutely at a loss for words.” Bravo.