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Armin van Buuren is a Dutch DJ and record producer from Leiden, South Holland. Since 2001, he has hosted A State of Trance (ASOT), a weekly radio show, which is broadcast to nearly 40 million listeners in 84 countries.
It takes little to recognize that Armin van Buuren has been one of the world’s biggest DJs and producers in
electronic music for over twenty years. His life-long dedication to the scene has earned him a Grammy®
nomination for ‘This Is What It Feels Like’ (feat. Trevor Guthrie) and critical acclaim for global hit singles such as
‘Blah Blah Blah’, ‘Great Spirit’ (with Vini Vici), ‘Leave A Little Love’ (with Alesso) and ‘Music Means Love Forever’
(with Steve Aoki). Additionally, he claimed the number one spot in the annual DJ Mag Top 100 DJs poll for an
unprecedented five times, contributing to the twenty consecutive top 5 spots to date (the most recent being a
His two-hour radio show, A State of Trance (ASOT), is broadcast weekly from his own radio studio in the Armada
Music HQ in Amsterdam to over 44 million listeners in more than 80 countries, as well as online via audio and
video live stream on YouTube, Facebook and Twitch. ASOT, which surpassed the milestone number of 1000
episodes in January 2021, has grown from a small radio show into a complete dance music brand with stages
and events across the globe.
Armin van Buuren has launched several ‘Armin Only’ world tours throughout the years, including the ones based
on his albums (‘Imagine’ in 2008, ‘Mirage’ in 2010, ‘Intense’ in 2013 and ‘Embrace’ in 2016) and ‘The Best Of
Armin Only’ in 2017. In June 2022, two years later than originally planned due to the Corona pandemic, Armin
van Buuren will play his most personal and intimate live shows yet through four sold-out shows in the Ziggo
Dome: ‘This Is Me – Feel Again’.
In addition to all of this, Armin van Buuren is the co-founder of Armada Music, the biggest independent dance
music label in the world. The Amsterdam-, NYC- and London-based record label, which was founded in tandem
with Maykel Piron and David Lewis, is acclaimed internationally for releasing music across the electronic music
spectrum, was voted #7 in Mixmag’s “Label Of The Decade” poll in 2017, and is the six-time winner of “Best
Global Record Label” at the International Dance Music Awards in Miami, the sixth of which was won in 2018.
As a performer, Armin had headlined countless shows at leading festivals and venues around the world,
including Electric Daisy Carnival (Las Vegas, New York), Ultra Music Festival (Miami) and Tomorrowland (Belgium)
plus residencies at Hï Ibiza, in Las Vegas and numerous others.
On December 16, 2019, Armin van Buuren joined forces with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to
motivate millions of people to join the movement and fight against plastic pollution. As a Global Oceans
Ambassador, Armin will contribute to the worldwide #BeatPlastic campaign:
www.arminvanbuuren.com/beatplastic.
To date, Armin has seven full-length artist albums to his name: ‘76’ (2003), ‘Shivers’ (2005), ‘Imagine’ (2008),
‘Mirage’ (2010), ‘Intense’ (2013), ‘Embrace’ (2015) and ‘Balance’ (2019).
www.arminvanbuuren.com, http://www.astateoftrance.com, www.armadamusic.com
Armin van Buuren is a Dutch DJ and record producer from Leiden, South Holland. Since 2001, he has hosted A State of Trance (ASOT), a weekly radio show, which is broadcast to nearly 40 million listeners in 84 countries.
His five-time number one position in the critically acclaimed DJ Mag Top 100 DJs Poll has been the result of his loyalty to fans
