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Armin
van Buuren has been named number one in the
prestigious DJ Top 100 poll – voted for
by over 350,000 people across the world, and
an indication of his prolific output over the
10 years he’s been DJing and producing.
Being the official World’s Best DJ is
just one of his many achievements, but the
driving force behind his success is an overriding
passion for dance music.
2008
began with the success that the number one
DJ seems to attract;
he was awarded with the prestigious
Buma Cultuur Pop Award in January. This was followed
by being voted as the Best Trance Artist in the
Beatport Music Awards in March; judged on the
musician’s
artistic achievements, national and international
success, it is evident that Armin van Buuren
has become one of the decade’s most influential
trance acts.
Even
a basic list of recent successes reads like
a lifetime of work: ‘Best
Album’ for
artist album “Shivers” at both the
Dutch Release Dance Awards and the prestigious
Edison Awards; ‘Best Compilation’ for “A
State Of Trance”, in 2006, claiming the ‘Best
European DJ’ award in 2007 and ‘Best
Mix Radio Show’ at the Miami Winter Music
Conference in 2006 and 2007, for radio show ‘A
State Of Trance’ – now broadcasting
on a massive 40 FM stations as well as satellite
and internet radio, with over 26 million listeners
a week; a 5th year residency in Ibiza at Amnesia
and 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
theme tune 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’ – the
landmarks just keep coming! |
