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85-638: His radio show "In the Mix" was the first non-stop mixed show that aired on Dutch National Radio on April 2, 1983. Early listeners were Armin van Buuren , Tiësto (Tijs Verwest), Olav Basoski , DJ Jean , Ferry Corsten and DJ Dano (Daniël Leeflang), who have cited Liebrand as their main reason for entering the music business. "In The Mix" also spawned an annual yearmix with 100+ tracks called "The Grandmix." The first series of Grandmixes aired from 1983 till 1992. There were only two Grandmixes (1988 and 1989) that were released on limited edition CD exclusively for members of

170-425: A 7" single) and as a result allowed this relatively unknown band a massive audience as the album sold over 60,000 copies and also reached number 12 in the charts, though it was later redacted its spot on the grounds of the cover price. Other early albums include Gong 's Flying Teapot (Radio Gnome Invisible, Pt. 1) , which Daevid Allen has been quoted as having never been paid for. The first single release for

255-709: A DJ in Club Nexus in 1996, playing multiple sets a week, most of which lasted six or more hours. In 1999, he met Dave Lewis who introduced him as a DJ in England and the United States. As his musical career began to take off, he put his law degree on hold, but he did return to graduate from law school in 2003. On 18 September 2009, van Buuren married Erika van Thiel. Their daughter Fenna was born in July 2011. On 27 July 2013, van Buuren announced just hours before he

340-415: A Scene . Armin also wrote a song for English singer Seal , but due to the release of his greatest hits album, Hits , the collaboration never came together. On 12 September 2010, Van Buuren launched "A State of Sundays", a new weekly 24-hour radio show aired on Sirius XM Radio. On 20 October 2010, Van Buuren won the award for Most Popular International DJ presented by The Golden Gnomes. A week later he

425-473: A connection with Virgin, and some UK and European Virgin albums that were distributed internationally (instead of being manufactured in each country) named Caroline as their American distributor. Some Caroline records bore the label name Caroline Blue Plate , which was mainly used for reissuing on CD many early progressive rock albums and artists from Virgin and Caroline's UK branches. The first Canadian editions were distributed by WEA, and were parallel issues of

510-673: A consortium led by Sony/ATV Music Publishing acquired EMI Music Publishing for $ 2.2 billion. However, the European Union ruled that Sony/ATV would represent over half of all the charting hits in the United Kingdom, and required the company to auction off Virgin Music and Famous Music UK, as well as twelve unrelated authors. In December 2012, BMG Rights Management acquired the Virgin and Famous publishers, and concluded

595-430: A five-hour set each night after the club first opened. He continued DJing with his sister Rita Liebrand , at "The Hippodrome" Hennef , Germany (1990–1995). His last residency was in the club "Disco Inferno" (2000–2004). Ben is still active as a DJ having specialised in doing key-mixing on 4 Pioneer CD players simultaneously. On 1 April 1983, Liebrand was hired by the public broadcasting association Veronica , producing

680-1101: A further £110,000 to his airline. After being acquired by Thorn EMI, Virgin launched several subsidiaries like Realworld Records , Innocent Records , blues speciality label Point Blank Records , and indie music label Hut Recordings , and continued signing new and established artists like Korn , A Fine Frenzy , Thirty Seconds to Mars , Tina Turner , Beenie Man , The Rolling Stones , Spice Girls , The Smashing Pumpkins , We Are Scientists , The Kooks , dcTalk (mainstream releases, contract ended in 2000), Belinda Carlisle , Meat Loaf , Placebo , Janet Jackson (contract ended in 2006), Daft Punk (contract ended in 2008), My Favorite Highway , Does It Offend You, Yeah? , The Future Sound of London , The Chemical Brothers , Brooke Allison , The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus , The Almost , Mariah Carey (contract ended in 2002), N.E.R.D , Laura Marling , Swami , RBD , Thalía and Priscilla Renea . Because business models increasingly diverged, Thorn EMI shareholders voted in favour of demerger proposals on 16 August 1996. The resulting media company became

765-729: A global tour on Dance Revolution in Europe, selling out to crowds of 20,000 people in the Netherlands. In March 2001, Van Buuren started his own radio show on ID&T Radio (traditionally broadcast in Dutch and later English since ASOT 183). In this weekly two-hour show, entitled A State of Trance , he plays the latest popular trance music tracks, and publishes the artists and track titles on his website. When ID&T Radio changed genres in 2004, Van Buuren moved A State of Trance to Fresh FM and later SLAM!FM , two Dutch radio stations. It

850-663: A music video that has been viewed over 304 million times on YouTube. Since the release of Imagine , Van Buuren has been working with Benno de Goeij of Rank 1 on solo productions and remixes. On 1 May 2008, he celebrated with various artists the 350th episode of A State of Trance at Noxx, Antwerp , Belgium. He was voted No. 1 in the 2008 DJ Mag again. He collaborated with his brother, guitarist Eller van Buuren, at Together As One in Los Angeles, U.S., on New Year's Eve 2009, as well as on Armin's 2008 studio album Imagine . His performance with his brother at Together As One

935-419: A nightclub residency, playing in "Juicy Lucy" nightclub (1978–1979). At this point, he was still letting one record play into another without beatmixing; however in 1979, he began a residency at "The Kwien" (pronounced 'The Queen') nightclub (1979–1980). During this time, Liebrand learned the art of mixing from Kwien resident Huib Luiten . At his longest residency to date at "The Keizer Karel" (1980–1988) played

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1020-483: A piece of art, walking up to a bridge and throwing it in the river, without knowing the people’s opinions about it." Liebrand embarked on computer-based 3D renderings and animation work, beginning his own visual company, Liebrand Images in 1991. He was an official Silicon Graphics reseller and instructor for a period of time. He used to work with 3D modelling programs such as Electro GIG and Softimage 3D Extreme. He undertook work such as commercials for clients including

1105-466: A purple label with round logo up to 1992 when Virgin was acquired internationally. Soon after Virgin Records was founded, the label created a music publisher for its artists, who also served as songwriters. Starting in the 1980s, Virgin Music signed songwriters from other record labels. After Virgin was acquired by EMI, the publisher was folded into EMI Music Publishing as EMI Virgin Music. In 2012,

1190-462: A row. He was ranked fifth on the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs list in 2022, as well as fourth in 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2020, and third in 2017. In 2014, he was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording for his single " This Is What It Feels Like " featuring Trevor Guthrie , which makes him the fourth trance artist ever to receive a Grammy Award nomination. In the United States, he holds

1275-452: A song by Airscape . In 2000, Van Buuren started his own Armin van Buuren compilation series, a mix of progressive house and vocal trance styles of music. His first compilation album, A State of Trance (not to be confused with his weekly A State of Trance radio shows), sold 10,000 copies and contains Van Buuren's remix of Moogwai , "Viola". Teaming up with Tiësto , two new projects were born: Major League – "Wonder Where You Are?"

1360-487: A three-hour "Grandmix" was broadcast, followed by a "Grandmix Disco Edition" on 23 August of that year. "Grandmixes" were broadcast in the summer and end-of-year of 2002 and 2003. In 2004, Liebrand joined Radio Veronica for a two-hour weekly mix. He makes Grandmixes available in a new format on 3 CDs on his website and has his 'In The Mix' show on Radio Veronica. Until 2018 Grandmixes were available on CD every year. Due to licensing problems which occurred through changes in

1445-498: A weekly individual mix show called "In The Mix", which aired on Hilversum 3 (later Radio 3). This one-hour show played at 2 am weekly, and ran from early 1983 to November 1985. From that radio show, regular features such as the "Grandmix", a yearly mix of all important dance tracks of the year, was developed. Taking a full month to organise, mix and record, the first Grandmix was broadcast at the end of 1983, but technical complications almost ended this event before it started. Arriving at

1530-412: A weekly radio show, which is broadcast to nearly 40 million listeners in 84 countries on over 100 FM radio stations. According to the website DJs and Festivals , "the radio show propelled him to stardom and helped cultivate an interest in trance music around the world". Van Buuren has won a number of accolades. He has been ranked the number one DJ by DJ Mag a record of five times, four years in

1615-533: Is now a weekly feature on Radio 538 , the Dutch radio station, DI.FM , an online radio station, and on XM Satellite Radio , channel 52 in the United States and Canada. A complete list of stations that broadcast A State of Trance can be found at the ASOT section of Armin's website. In 2002, he had a residency at Glow in Washington D.C., and played across North America. He regularly appeared at Amnesia on

1700-519: Is originally made by composer Ramin Djawadi . On 16 October 2015 Armin van Buuren released the next single from Embrace called "Strong Ones" featuring Cimo Fränkel. This was followed by the release of his collaboration with Cosmic Gate "Embargo" on 22 October 2015. To accompany the album's release, Van Buuren announced the return of the Armin Only series of parties. This edition of the tour

1785-509: The 56th Grammy Awards , in relation to his Grammy Award nomination for the single featuring Trevor Guthrie, "This Is What It Feels Like" in the category of Best Dance Recording . On 8 May 2015, Armin van Buuren released the first single from his sixth studio album, Embrace , which was released on 29 October 2015. The single is titled " Another You " featuring Mr Probz . Three weeks after releasing "Another You", Van Buuren also debuted another remix from Game of Thrones official theme which

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1870-690: The Capitol Music Group imprint, now also owned by UMG, since 2012. The US operations had also taken on the name Virgin Records. A minor number of artists remained on Virgin Records America's roster, which was mostly occupied with European artists such as Bastille , Barbara Pravi , Circa Waves , Corinne Bailey Rae , Ella Eyre , Grizfolk , Walking on Cars , Seinabo Sey , and Prides ; American artists include Knox Hamilton, L'Tric, Loren Gray , and Rise Against . Virgin Classics

1955-488: The World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT). On 25 October 2019, Armin released his seventh studio album, Balance . In January 2021, Armin celebrated the 1000th episode of A State of Trance with a 7-day long livestream, where he, co-host Ruben de Ronde and monthly show resident Ferry Corsten presented a list of the top 1000 songs played during A State of Trance radio shows, as voted on by listeners of

2040-465: The "Gemini" or "Twins" logo) was designed by English artist and illustrator Roger Dean : a young naked woman in mirror image with a large long-tailed lizard and the word "Virgin" in Dean's familiar script. A variation on the logo was used for the spin-off Caroline Records label. The first release on the label was the progressive rock album Tubular Bells by multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield , who

2125-793: The 1980s was Culture Club. In 1978, Virgin set up US operations first in New York on Perry Street, with distribution from Atlantic Records . Virgin Records soon moved operations to New Jersey along with a short-lived subdivision called Virgin International , handled by independent New Jersey–based distributor Jem Records . Virgin International was used mainly for progressive rock artists and reissues of earlier Virgin / Atlantic albums such as Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Fish Rising by Steve Hillage, which Columbia chose not to reissue. Virgin International also issued albums by some of Virgin's reggae artists, including Gregory Isaacs . At

2210-420: The 250th episode of A State of Trance at Asta, The Hague , Netherlands. He was voted number two in the 2006 DJ Mag . On 17 May 2007, he celebrated with various artists the 300th episode of A State of Trance at Pettelaarse Schans, 's-Hertogenbosch , Netherlands. Van Buuren was elected best DJ in the world in the 2007 DJ Mag edition. On 12 January 2008, Van Buuren was given the "Buma Cultuur Pop Award,"

2295-482: The Arcade Compilations CDs, promotional music videos for acts including Atlantic Ocean , 2 Brothers on the 4th Floor and Alan Parsons and visuals for station idents for music TV station TMF . He designs all of his CD covers, labels and video promos himself. In 1997, Liebrand released "Funky Town" and in 1998 negotiations began with Dutch radio station Radio 538 (an offspring of Veronica),

2380-677: The Armada headquarters. With the new accommodations made possible by the studio, he introduced a new segment of the radio show called Service for Dreamers where he invites fans to send in their favorite trance tracks that have a special meaning to them. Every week one track gets chosen to be featured live on the show and introduced by the fans of the radio show live, either by a walk-in, phone call, Skype or other means of contact. In 2017, Armin van Buuren announced he will be releasing an online MasterClass sharing his expertise in electronic music production. On 13 April 2017, Armin van Buuren performed at

2465-709: The Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols in the window. Afterwards they signed other new wave groups: Public Image Ltd , Boxer , Culture Club , Fingerprintz , Gillan , Holly and the Italians , The Human League (whose " Don't You Want Me " was the label's first chart-topping single, in 1981), Magazine , Skids , the Motors , Penetration , the Ruts , Shooting Star , Simple Minds , and XTC . After modified versions of

2550-719: The EMI Group. In 1997, Virgin absorbed the remainder of EMI USA , which earlier consolidated EMI America Records and Manhattan Records , with Capitol Records acquiring EMI's other American operations, and in 1998, opened a country music division called Virgin Records Nashville, of which record producer Scott Hendricks was president. The label's signees comprised Julie Reeves , Jerry Kilgore , Roy D. Mercer , Tom Mabe , Chris Cagle , Clay Davidson , and River Road . In 2001, Virgin Nashville closed and its roster

2635-604: The Heineken stage in Shanghai , in the first Formula 1 Festival along with Angela Zhang . Armin performed a seven-hour-long set at the Romania Untold Festival on 6 August 2018, clocking from 2:00 a.m. to after 9:00 a.m. This outlasted his previous 2017 ASOT performance, which had gone on for five hours. On 6 October 2019, he performed at Republic Square, Yerevan , Armenia as an opening act for

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2720-474: The Melody Makers , Redhead Kingpin & The F.B.I. , Neneh Cherry , Steve Winwood , Hindsight and, after her MCA contract ran out in 1991, Belinda Carlisle. Virgin Records America's releases were distributed through WEA again by Atlantic Records until 1992. The label was then acquired by EMI-Capitol Special Markets . In 1996, Virgin Records offered Janet Jackson one of the best and highest deals at

2805-793: The Muffins and Nash the Slash signed to Dindisc in the UK as well; both artists had releases in Canada and the UK on Dindisc. In 1983, an independent Virgin Records Canada Inc. company was created, three years before a similar move occurred in the US. From this time onward, Virgin Canada used unique label designs not seen in other countries: a red label with five horizontal bars across the top and an extra-large "scrawl" logo from 1983 to 1985, followed by

2890-589: The UK Disco Mix Club . The Grandmix 1990 was planned to follow, but was cancelled (after being pressed) due to changes in copyright rules in the UK. The later Grandmixes from 1999 till 2018 were aired and also released on a 3 CD Box by Sony BMG records. Liebrand began his DJing career in 1976 at the age of 16 with his mobile set-up, "The B. Liebrand Audio Studio", playing parties around his hometown of Nijmegen. Two years later, when he became old enough to frequent nightclubs , he moved from mobile discos to

2975-603: The Veronica studio, Liebrand discovered that he had forgotten the second of the two tapes on which the Grandmix '83 was recorded. But he happened to have a tape of a just finished "High Fashion Dance Mix" with him, and it was with that tape that the second part of the Grandmix '83 began. In January 1984, the 'Grandmix '83' was broadcast in its entirety. The name "Grandmix" developed into a trademark event for both Radio Veronica and Liebrand, running until 1992. Ben Liebrand registered

3060-469: The Virgin Classics artist roster and catalogue in its Erato Records division, and the "Virgin Classics" name, along with "EMI Classics," disappeared. Branson and Powell had initially run a small record shop called Virgin Records and Tapes on Notting Hill Gate , London, specializing in krautrock imports, and offering bean bags and free vegetarian food for the benefit of customers listening to

3145-782: The Virgin Records label exclusively until gradually other parts of the Virgin Group adopted it, including Virgin Atlantic , Virgin Mobile and Virgin Money . Virgin Records was sold by Branson to Thorn EMI in June 1992 for a reported US$ 1 billion (around £560 million) (equivalent to $ 2,171,211,762 in 2023), with a special non-competition clause that would prevent Branson from founding another recording company during

3230-403: The broadcast studios, everybody was busy doing something else, not really interested, and only the technician who was on duty, sat with me in the broadcast room. I plugged in my gear, pressed play around six o’clock, and after an hour I disconnected it again, and took off. Having sat there for one hour, solely with the technician, it was the biggest anti-climax ever. This could be compared to making

3315-579: The deal in May 2013. Virgin Music was renamed BMG VM Music, while Famous Music became BMG FM Music. Before its demise, Virgin Music's songwriters included Iggy Pop , Texas , Ozzy Osbourne , Cannibal Corpse , Nirvana , Winger , Wax , Tears for Fears , The Prodigy , Goo Goo Dolls , Tool , The Crystal Method , Terence Trent D'Arby , Lenny Kravitz , Ben Harper , Warrant , Mark Ronson , Devo , Culture Club , Take That , Bullet for My Valentine , Robbie Williams , Wayne Hector , Orchestral Manoeuvres in

3400-461: The early days of Grandmix free of any licensing blockages using all available material to the artists choice. Liebrand is married to Brenda van Raam. They have two sons and a daughter. Liebrand and his son Sascha released two mix cd's in 2010, which they made together. In 2010, they moved from their monumental estate Villa Roozenburg in Weurt (Beuningen, Gelderland), The Netherlands to Okotoks in

3485-774: The first was in Johannesburg , South Africa at MTN Expo Centre, and the second in Miami 's Ultra Music Festival . He then performed in Argentina at GEBA in Buenos Aires, followed by a large event at Brabanthallen in Den Bosch , Netherlands which included more than 30 DJs from countries all over the world and was attended by over 30,000 people. The final show was held in Sydney on 16 April at Acer Arena . In 2011, Van Buuren

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3570-520: The five years following the agreement (see the final paragraph in EU Merger Decision IV/M202 of 27 April 1992). It now faces competition from Branson's new label: V2 Records . Branson sold Virgin Records to fund Virgin Atlantic which at that time was coming under intense anti-competitive pressure from British Airways . In 1993, BA settled a libel action brought by Branson over BA's " dirty tricks " campaign, giving him £500,000 and

3655-467: The island of Ibiza , Balearic Islands, Spain. In October that year, Van Buuren was voted number 5 in the DJ Mag . In June 2003, Van Buuren celebrated the 100th episode of A State of Trance at Bloomingdale, Bloemendaal aan Zee , Netherlands and released his debut studio album, 76 , a 76-minute album divided into 13 tracks. In the same year he was voted No. 3 in the DJ Mag and held third place for

3740-516: The label PM in a new-wave outpost, a move that plunged the record company into the mainstream of the punk rock era. Under the guidance of Tessa Watts , Virgin's Head of Publicity (and later, also Director of Production), the Pistols rocketed the label to success. Shortly afterwards, the Nottingham record shop was raided by police for having a window display of the Sex Pistols' album Never Mind

3825-591: The label was Kevin Coyne 's "Marlene" (b/w "Everybody Says"), taken from his album Marjory Razorblade and released in August 1973. Coyne was the second artist signed to the label after Oldfield. Although Virgin was initially one of the key labels of English and European progressive rock, the 1977 signing of the Sex Pistols (who had already been signed and then dropped by both EMI and A&M ) reinvented

3910-657: The label's president, with Virgin Records now operating as an imprint of latter label. In February 2021, the Universal Music Group announced that it will rebrand the Caroline Music Group as Virgin Music Label & Artist Services, the name change was "inspired and influenced by the spirit and ethos of the iconic Virgin Records label". In September 2022, UMG consolidated Virgin Music Label & Artist Services, Ingrooves Music Group , and

3995-546: The mix was completed and then taken by Liebrand to be part of a mix showcase at the DMC Mixing Championship Finals in London. Liebrand explained "Then I put on my remix of Phil Collins, in front of those three and a half thousand DJ’s. And I told them: "If you want to see this released? Call Virgin first thing tomorrow!" That resulted in Virgin being called by two and a half thousand DJ's, and this got

4080-526: The most prestigious Dutch music award. On 17 April 2008, Van Buuren released his third studio album, Imagine . It features collaboration with singers such as Jacqueline Govaert of Krezip . The album debuted at number one on the Dutch Albums Chart . The second single released from the album, "In and Out of Love" , featuring Sharon den Adel from the band Within Temptation , has spawned

4165-406: The music industry in 2019, there was no Grandmix available on CD in 2019. Instead Liebrand changed the concept to a three-hour (2:59:33) long mix called "Grandmix Decade Edition" which covers more than 250 songs of the years 2010–2019. It was broadcast on Radio 538 and Radio Calletti on 31 December 2019 from 18:00-21:00. Listeners have been very happy with this mix returning to the fast mixing style of

4250-563: The music on offer. The first real store was above a shoe shop at the Tottenham Court Road end of Oxford Street . After making the shop into a success, they turned their business into a fully fledged record label. The name Virgin , according to Branson (in his autobiography), arose from Tessa Watts , a colleague of his, when they were brainstorming business ideas. She suggested Virgin – as they were all new to business – like "virgins". The original Virgin logo (known to fans as

4335-513: The name "Grandmix" also as a trademark . In 1984, Liebrand also started making shorter remixes for the Friday evening ' Curry & Van Inkel show', later the 'Stenders & Van Inkel show' (both by the same broadcaster and air on the same radio station as mentioned above). His "In the Minimix" was always played at "two records past nine" ( twee platen over negen ) and formed an important part of

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4420-576: The next two years (2004, 2005). Also in 2004, Van Buuren remixed the 24 theme song into a trance hit. On 2 June 2005, he celebrated the 200th episode of A State of Trance at the Museumplein of Amsterdam . On 8 August 2005, Van Buuren released his second studio album, Shivers . On the album Van Buuren worked with artists such as Pakistani-American singer Nadia Ali , English singer Justine Suissa and American trance duo Gabriel & Dresden . On 25 May 2006, he celebrated with various artists

4505-449: The popular radioshow. These minimixes were either three/four track mixes (never exceeding fifteen minutes in total) or remixes of popular chart records at the time. Many of Liebrand's remixes, released as singles, including Bill Withers " Lovely Day " and Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons " December 1963 (Oh, What a Night) " were premiered as 'minimixes' on this radio show. In the case of Phil Collins " In The Air Tonight ," however,

4590-529: The province of Alberta , Canada . From there he continues with his activities. Armin van Buuren This is an accepted version of this page Armin Jozef Jacobus Daniël van Buuren OON ( / v æ n ˈ b j ʊər ə n / van BURE -ən , Dutch: [ˈɑrmɪ ˈɲoːzəf jaːˈkoːbʏz ˈdaːnijɛl vɑm ˈbyːrə(n)] ; born 25 December 1976) is a Dutch DJ and record producer. Since 2001, he has hosted A State of Trance (ASOT),

4675-622: The pseudonym Gaia he released "4 Elements" on Captivating Sounds, a sub-label of Warner Brothers . His second album, Basic Instinct featured a new track: Perpetuous Dreamer – " The Sound of Goodbye ". This track entered the Dutch charts in June 2001 at number 26. Later in the year, the track hit No. 1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. The third album, In Motion was released 6 August 2001. A fourth album, Transparence , followed in 2002. In 2003, he worked with such artists such as DJ Seth Alan Fannin throughout

4760-493: The recently acquired mtheory Artist Partnerships as part of the newly launched division Virgin Music Group . UMG also appointed mtheory founders JT Myers and Nat Pastor as Co-CEOs of the new division. The Virgin label was distributed in the US by Atlantic from 1973 to 1975. During this period, 14 albums were issued. All had been previously issued in the UK on Virgin, although one album, Marjory Razorblade by Kevin Coyne,

4845-742: The record for most entries, twenty-one, on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart. Armin Jozef Jacobus Daniël van Buuren was born in Leiden , on 25 December 1976, and grew up in Koudekerk aan den Rijn . He was inspired by French electronic music composer Jean-Michel Jarre and Dutch DJ and Remixer Ben Liebrand . Van Buuren graduated from the Stedelijk Gymnasium Leiden in 1995, and studied law at Leiden University . He began working as

4930-527: The result of which was the re-broadcasting of all the Radio Veronica "Grandmixes" on the last Saturday of the month throughout 1999. The final intention was to broadcast a brand-new "Grandmix" in December 1999, a "MillenniuM-Mix", containing the greatest dance tracks of the century. Liebrand was invited to produce a mid-year summer Grandmix and an end-of-year Grandmix for Radio 538. On 31 December 2001,

5015-600: The same early 14 albums issued in the US by Virgin/Atlantic. In 1975, distribution transferred to Columbia (as it had in the US), but the following year distribution was transferred again to Polydor Records (which changed its name to PolyGram by 1980), and issued a different and larger selection of records from what was being issued in the US. Canadian editions of the Dindisc label were issued as Dindisc/Virgin. Virgin's Canadian division arranged to have Canadian artists Martha &

5100-628: The same time, Virgin releases distributed by Columbia continued, distribution returning to Atlantic (later WEA) in 1980, at which time Virgin International ceased operations. In 1986, Virgin Records opened up another American division, Virgin Records America . Its first release was the debut album by Cutting Crew which included the hit single " (I Just) Died in Your Arms ". Other Virgin America signings included Camper Van Beethoven , Bob Mould , Warren Zevon , Paula Abdul , T'pau , Ziggy Marley and

5185-704: The show. The livestream ran from January 14 to January 21, and the top song was Shivers , from Armin's 2005 album. As has been done for previous radio show milestones, a major ASOT1000 festival was planned in Utrecht , but due to the COVID-19 pandemic , it has since been repeatedly delayed. The festival was held on March 4-5, 2023, by which point the weekly radio show have already surpassed 1100 episodes. On 12 January 2024, Armin released his eighth studio album, Breathe In . Documentary and concert films In 2011, van Buuren

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5270-567: The success of platinum performers Paula Abdul , Janet Jackson , Devo , Tangerine Dream , Genesis , Phil Collins , OMD , the Human League , Culture Club , Simple Minds , the Spice Girls , Lenny Kravitz , the Sex Pistols , and Mike Oldfield among others, meaning that by the time it was sold, it was regarded as a major label, alongside other large international independents such as A&M and Island Records . Virgin Records

5355-423: The time estimating an $ 80 million deal. The agreement also required Virgin to allocate about $ 25 million in video production, marketing and promotion costs – a much larger sum than most deals. Virgin Records America was founded by the executive team of Jordan Harris, Jeff Ayeroff and Phil Quartararo . Another American company called Caroline Records co-existed during this time. Caroline records rarely mentioned

5440-410: The track signed and released by 1pm the day after" which hit Number 4 in the UK charts. After producing the final "Grandmix" in 1992, Liebrand felt frustrated with lack of feedback that his mixes were gaining. "You didn’t know what people thought of it. 30 days fulltime working on the Grandmix in December, ten to twelve hours a day mixing. On 31 December it was finished, and the last years when I entered

5525-468: The twins label came the red, white and blue design introduced in 1975, which coincided with the height of punk and new wave. The current Virgin logo (known informally as "the scrawl") was created in 1978, commissioned by Simon Draper, then managing director of Virgin Records Limited. Brian Cooke of Cooke Key Associates commissioned a graphic designer to produce a stylised signature. The logo was first used on Mike Oldfield's Incantations album in 1978 and by

5610-513: Was also the last event of his Armin Only: Imagine world tour. To celebrate the 400th episode of A State of Trance , he performed at three shows with various artists in April, 2009 at Club Butan, Wuppertal , Germany, AIR , Birmingham, United Kingdom and Maassilo, Rotterdam , Netherlands . Also in 2009, Foreign Media Games announced the production of Armin van Buuren: In the Mix , a music video game being produced in collaboration with Cloud 9 Music and Van Buuren's Armada Music label. The title

5695-715: Was announced for a fifth non-consecutive year as the world's number one DJ according to DJ Mag . To celebrate the 600th episode of A State of Trance , Van Buuren announced that he would perform with various artists all around the world in early 2013. The show was called A State of Trance 600: The Expedition . It was announced that the show would tour the world, including stops in Madrid , Mexico City , São Paulo , Minsk , Sofia , Beirut , Kuala Lumpur , Mumbai , Miami , Guatemala City , New York City , and Den Bosch . The first single of Van Buuren's fifth studio album, Intense , titled " This Is What It Feels Like ", featured Canadian singer and songwriter Trevor Guthrie , and

5780-446: Was announced that Van Buuren's fourth studio album, Mirage was due to be released on 10 September. The first single " Full Focus ", was released through iTunes Store on 24 June. The song peaked at number 60 in the Netherlands. One of the confirmed tracks from the album is a collaboration with English singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor called " Not Giving Up on Love ", which was released as a single from Bextor's fourth studio album, Make

5865-453: Was announced, for the fourth year running, as the number one DJ in DJ Mag . The 2010 edition of Armin Only : Mirage kicked off in November 2010, in Utrecht, Netherlands , and was followed by shows in Saint Petersburg , Kyiv , Buenos Aires, Melbourne , Beirut , Poznań , Moscow and Bratislava . In March and April, 2011, celebrating the 500th episode of his radio show, Van Buuren performed five live shows along with various artists;

5950-407: Was appointed Officer of the Order of Orange Nassau for his services to music. Virgin Records Virgin Records is a British record label owned by Universal Music Group . They were originally founded as a British independent record label in 1972 by entrepreneurs Richard Branson , Simon Draper, Nik Powell , and musician Tom Newman . They grew to be a worldwide success over time, with

6035-450: Was appointed Officer of the Order of Oranje-Nassau for services to Dutch dance and music economy. That year he also received the Key to ( Freedom ) of Leiden from the City Mayor, as well as being voted No. 2 in the 2011 DJ Mag . To celebrate the 550th episode of A State of Trance , he performed with various artists on two different continents during fourth weeks. The show was called A State of Trance 550: Invasion . The first event

6120-726: Was celebrated at Ministry of Sound in London on 1 March 2012. On 7 March, Moscow held the second event at Expocentre . Kyiv 's show was performed at International Exhibition Centre on 10 March. On 17 March, as part of the Beyond Wonderland festival in Los Angeles and on 25 March at the Ultra Music Festival in Miami. On 31 March, the biggest and final edition of ASOT 550 took place in the Brabanthallen of Den Bosch , Netherlands. On 19 October 2012, Van Buuren

6205-494: Was discovered by Tom Newman and brought to Simon Draper – who eventually persuaded Richard and Nik to present it as their first release in 1973, produced by Tom Newman, for which the fledgling label garnered unprecedented acclaim. This was soon followed by some notable krautrock releases, including electronic breakthrough album Phaedra by Tangerine Dream (which went Top 20), and The Faust Tapes and Faust IV by Faust . The Faust Tapes album retailed for 49p (the price of

6290-471: Was due to headline the main stage at Tomorrowland that his wife had given birth to a son, Remy. On 16 February 2018, van Buuren explored his family history in an episode of the TV series Verborgen verleden , the Dutch version of the UK series Who Do You Think You Are? . In 1996, van Buuren released EP and Push on Timeless Records. van Buuren had his first success with a track called " Blue Fear ", which

6375-784: Was folded into Capitol Records' Nashville division. Capitol Records and Virgin Records America merged in 2007 to form Capitol Music Group after a massive restructuring of EMI Group Ltd. Stepping down as chief executive of Capitol Records was Andy Slater, with Jason Flom, former executive of Virgin, taking the reins as chairman and CEO of the newly created company. Universal Music Group (UMG) purchased EMI in 2012, thus acquiring Virgin. UMG absorbed Virgin's UK operations to create Virgin EMI Records in March 2013. On 16 June 2020, Universal rebranded Virgin EMI Records as EMI Records and named Rebecca Allen (former president of UMG's Decca label) as

6460-561: Was founded in 1988 as part of Virgin Records. Along with EMI Classics , it too was acquired by UMG in 2012 as part of the takeover of the EMI Group. But the terms of the European Commission 's approval of the takeover required divestment of the two classical labels. Accordingly, both were sold in February the following year to Warner Music Group , and this transaction was approved by the European Union that May. Warner placed

6545-524: Was released on Black Hole Recordings and Alibi – " Eternity " was released on Armind. "Eternity" received club and chart success and was signed to Paul van Dyk 's imprint Vandit Records . Another major collaboration followed this. Together with Ferry Corsten , Van Buuren recorded a riff titled "Exhale " for the System F album, Out of the Blue . Released as a single, this track reached Gold status. Under

6630-896: Was released on 12 November 2010 exclusively for the Wii console . He was voted number one DJ in the 2009 DJ Mag for the third consecutive year. On 3 March 2010, Van Buuren was awarded with the Golden Harp for his musical work and contribution to Dutch music, by Buma/Stemra at the 2010 Buma Harpen Gala in Hilversum , Netherlands. To celebrate the 450th episode of A State of Trance , he performed with various artists at five shows across two continents. The locations were: The Guvernment , Toronto, Canada on 1 April 2010, Roseland Ballroom , New York City on 2 April and on 3 April again, Expo Arena, Bratislava , Slovakia on 9 April and Centennial Hall , Wroclaw , Poland on 24 April. On 23 June 2010, it

6715-468: Was released on 5 April 2013. The single nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording. The tour for the album, Armin Only: Intense , was announced on 17 October 2013. 30 April 2013 saw the abdication of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands in favor of her son, King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands , who was sworn in and inaugurated that day, which was Queen's Day as well. Van Buuren

6800-607: Was released under the Cyber Records label in 1997. Another successful track, " Communication ", was released under the same label and became popular in Ibiza , Spain in the summer of 1999. After being signed to AM PM Records , this track entered the UK Singles Chart at No. 18 in 2000. In the beginning of 1999, van Buuren started his label Armind together with United Recordings. The first release, Gig – "One",

6885-574: Was sold to Thorn EMI in 1992. EMI would later be acquired by Universal Music Group (UMG) in 2012 with UMG creating the Virgin EMI Records division. The Virgin Records name continues to be used by UMG in certain markets such as Germany and Japan. Virgin Records America, Inc. was the company's North American operations founded in 1986. They are no longer active and were headquartered in Hollywood , California , and operated under

6970-722: Was the headline act in a performance to a live audience celebrating the King's crowning in Amsterdam. While he was performing live together with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in the Amsterdam Harbor on Java-eiland , King Willem-Alexander , Queen Máxima and their three daughters made an unplanned visit on stage. On 19 October 2013, Armin van Buuren was ranked number two DJ in the world by DJ Mag . On 26 January 2014, Armin van Buuren attended

7055-463: Was titled Armin Only: Embrace and took place throughout both 2015 and 2016. As the title of the tour suggests, it was based around the collection of music that he showcased on his new album. On 2 February 2017, Armin van Buuren officially opened a new A State of Trance radio show studio in Amsterdam as part of his celebrations for the 800th episode of the radio show. The studio is located in

7140-439: Was truncated from a 20-song double album to an 11-song single album. Beginning with Mike Oldfield's Ommadawn album in 1975, American distribution switched to CBS Records/ Columbia Records . CBS/Columbia was unwilling to release all Virgin artists, and so many were licensed to other labels: Some of these records had a small Virgin logo added to the regular company design on the label. One of Virgin's and Epic's biggest acts of

7225-407: Was well received. The second release, " Touch Me " under the name Rising Star, was signed to Ministry of Sound in the UK, before the record was released. By the time of his third release, Gimmick – "Free" was signed to R&S Records . During this year, he remixed the first two singles of Gouryella ( Gouryella and Walhalla ) and, under the guise of Rising Star, produced a remix of L'Esperanza ,

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