


Argentina held the third celebration of ASOT 500 at G.E.B.A. in Buenos Aires. Miami’s show was performed at the Ultra Music Festival on 27 March. The first show was held on 19 March 2011 in Johannesburg, South Africa at MTN Expo Centre. To mark the 10-year anniversary and 500th episode of his weekly radio show A State of Trance, Van Buuren performed at five shows across five continents over five consecutive weeks along with various artists. The 2010 edition of Armin Only: Mirage kicked off on 13 November 2010, in Utrecht, Netherlands, with more shows coming in Saint-Petersburg, Kiev, Buenos Aires, Melbourne, Beirut, Poznań, Moscow and Bratislava. On 27 October 2010, Van Buuren was announced, for the 4th year running, as the number 1 DJ. On 20 October 2010, Van Buuren won the award for Most Popular International DJ presented by The Golden Gnomes. On 12 September 2010, Van Buuren launched “A State of Sundays”, a new weekly 24-hour radio show aired on Sirius XM Radio 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 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 23 June 2010, it 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 at midnight. The song peaked at number sixty in the Netherlands. The locations were: The Guvernment, Toronto, Canada on 1 April 2010, Roseland Ballroom, New York City, USA on 2 April and on 3 April again, Expo Arena, Bratislava, Slovakia on 9 April and Centennial Hall, Wroclaw, Poland on 24 April. To celebrate the 450th episode of A State of Trance, he performed with various artists at five shows across two continents. 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.
