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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   “It’s insane,” beams Armin Van Buuren when we tell him that the world’s dance music fans have voted him the No.1 DJ on the planet for the second year running. “I don’t know what I’ve done to deserve it.” He’s got to be kidding, surely. When he won last year his crowning seemed more than worthy. But after the past 12 months the Dutchman has enjoyed, 2007 now looks like a mere warm-up. With immense solo gigs, records charting across Europe, a great Ibiza residence, awards as the most important recording artist in his homeland and a radio show listened to by - wait for it - 27 million listeners, it’s enough to make the rest of the Top 100 DJs hang up their headphones as underachievers. And everyone who voted for him in 2007 should be proud of the part they played in this amazing annum - his DJmag victory in 2007 has helped massively in Armin’s über-year. “It’s only affected me in a positive way,” he says of his win 12 months ago. “It’s opened doors that weren’t open before. On the one hand, I’m still doing the same thing - I was already working with the best promoters in the best clubs around the world. But the whole No.1 thing is magical for me - everyone looks at the DJmag list. It’s a really, really good feeling.”