Dutch DJ and record producer (born 1976)

Armin van Buuren

Get to know the artist

Armin van Buuren is a Dutch trance DJ and producer, with A State Of Trance connecting his radio selections, mixes and wider musical world. Euphoria and melodic energy are central, but his collaborations also reach beyond trance.

Explore the catalogue: Breathe, his ninth album, and A State Of Trance Ibiza 2025 offer two routes in: artist material and a curated mix. Techno Trance, made with Adam Beyer from the D-Shake original, explores the overlap with techno.

Inside the sets

Observed sample

3 qualifying official festival mixes in the observed sample.

3 sets sampledOfficial festival mixes90.3% of music entries identified

Sample dates: 25 July 2025 – 11 Oct 2025

Set-to-set record overlap: 31.4%Average shared identified selections when comparing every pair of sets.
Recurring main-track transitions: 14.6%How often two records played in order also appear in that order in another set. Unknown entries break the chain; layered records do not add steps.
Outside the observed peer sample: 91.3%84 of 92 identified credited track/remix names were absent from 13 qualifying sets by 6 other DJs. This is absence from this peer sample, not worldwide rarity.

Sources & how to read this

Source: Apple Music · observed sample

These are officially published mixes. They may be edited or shorter than the live performance; the comparisons describe the published selections.

Percentages describe the sampled selections, not artistic quality or mixing skill. Unidentified tracks do not establish a rare selection.

Comparison artists: Alesso, Alok, Hardwell, Martin Garrix, Steve Aoki, Swedish House Mafia.

Tomorrowland Belgium 2025: Armin van Buuren at Mainstage, Weekend 2 (DJ Mix) ↗25 July 2025
20 / 23 music entries identified
1 labelled commentary entry excluded from the music count.
Date shown: published mix date.
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Armin van Buuren at UNTOLD 2025 (DJ Mix) ↗8 Aug 2025
54 / 60 music entries identified
2 labelled commentary entries excluded from the music count.
Date shown: published mix date.
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Tomorrowland Brasil 2025: Armin van Buuren at Mainstage (DJ Mix) ↗11 Oct 2025
19 / 20 music entries identified
2 labelled commentary entries excluded from the music count.
Date shown: published mix date.
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Cohort: Official published festival mixes. Selected window: 2025-07-20 to 2026-07-19 (365 days inclusive).
Each counted official published mix was checked for its complete published track listing, at least 80% fully identified visible music rows and 10 unique identified track/remix names. A complete published mix does not establish an unedited or complete live performance. One source date counts once per DJ.
0 in-window source records were excluded for incompleteness, coverage, unique-track minimum, or a repeated performance date.
Source observations checked through 2026-10-16. This is a dated sample, not a live feed or a complete history.
Matching uses reviewed canonical credited artist, title and version keys, independent of platform. Aliases require manual review; unspecified versions are not certified originals and are not merged with named remixes. Ambiguous components stay unknown. Identified mashup/layer components count as selections; only explicitly established main-track order contributes transitions. A source row counts as identified only when every component is identified.
Set overlap averages pairwise Dice: 200 times shared unique selections divided by the combined unique-selection counts. Repeat order counts identified adjacent main-record pairs occurring in at least two distinct sets, divided by all such pair occurrences.
Unknown tracks are excluded from identity comparisons, never treated as rare. These metrics do not measure mixing skill, crowd response or artistic quality.
Dates use published mix date; publication dates must not be read as confirmed performance dates.
5 reviewed source rows explicitly labelled Commentary were excluded from music identification coverage. Their positions remain sequence gaps; they never create transitions between music selections on either side. Raw source-row counts are retained in the evidence.

Born in: Leiden
Country: Kingdom of the Netherlands
Active since: 1995
First RA show: 2000 · Brabanthallen, All
On RA: 894 shows in 65 countries
Released on: United Recordings, Vandit Records, Nebula, Data Records, Xtravaganza Records, Black Hole Recordings
RA followers: 65,742
Plays: Trance
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Their labels

Armada
Founder · Founded 2003 · Source: Wikidata · Logo: Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Armind
Founder · Founded 1999 · Source: Wikidata
A State of Trance
Founder · Founded 2003 · Source: MusicBrainz