Armin van Buuren has been named number one in the prestigious DJ MAG
Top 100 poll five times, in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012, as the first DJ in
the history of the DJ Magazine and an indication of his prolific output over the
more than 15 years he’s been dj’ing and producing. In 2012, he took in a Top 3
position for the 9th year running. Being one of the world’s most popular DJ’s is
just one of his many achievements, but the driving force behind his success is
an overriding passion for dance music.
AWARDS & ACCOLADES
Even a basic list of recent successes reads like a lifetime of work: he was awarded with the
prestigious Buma Cultuur Pop Award in 2008. This was followed by being voted as the Best Trance
Artist in the Beatport Music Awards judged on the musician’s artistic achievements, national and
international success. Next to that, Armin was awarded for ‘Best Global DJ’ at the International Dance
Music Awards and most popular International DJ at Australia’s Sony inthemix DJ Poll, along with 3
other big Awards. In 2010, Armin received the ‘Gouden Harp’, the highest distinction a Dutch artist
can get. On Queensday 2011, Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands named Armin Officer in the Order
of Oranje-Nassau. The Royal Distinction was handed to him after his set in hometown Leiden by
mayor Lenferink of Leiden. It is evident that Armin van Buuren has become one of the decade’s most
influential trance acts.
But there’s more. ‘Best Album’ for his artist albums, ‘Best Compilation’ for his A State of Trance compilation
series, ‘Best Mix Radio Show’ at the Miami Winter Music Conference for years in a
row for radio show ‘A State Of Trance’ – now broadcasting on a massive 40 FM stations as well
as satellite and internet radio, with over 20 million listeners a week; over 50,000 downloads every
week from podcasting high end chart-bothering positions all over the world for singles, albums
and compilations, with single ‘Rush Hour’ used as the anthem to the UEFA European Youth
Championship; the #1 entry in the Dutch album charts with his artist album ‘Imagine’, the #1 entry
of the DVD registration of ‘Armin Only ‘ Imagine’, a golden record for ‘Mirage’ on selling more than
25.000 copies in the Netherlands – the landmarks just keep coming!