If you read it all, you won’t have words for this.
The Best of Armin Only didn’t just happen: It was Armin van Buuren’s personal way of saying thanks to all the fans who supported him over the past twenty years. Because tonight is a throwback to the past as well as a sneak peek into the future, we collected twenty facts of twenty years of Armin’s career and of this monumental Best Of show.
1. For The Best of Armin Only, we needed 60 trailers of equipment.
2. Armin was crowned The World’s #1 DJ no less than 5x and has been part of the Top 5 DJ’s for 15 solid years now!
3. Light: 1353 fixtures lit up #TheBestOfAO.
4. Armin has been part of the Top 5 DJ’s for 15 solid years now.
5. 2.5 Kilometres (!) of LED strips covered the ArenA this weekend.
6. 400 Speakers & 176 amplifiers got you dancing tonight.
7. The King of the Netherlands high-fived Armin during the Royal Inauguration party.
8. #TheBestOfAO Stage is 1000 square meters, that’s one km2! If you think that’s a lot; there’s 1200m.2 of LED-screens!
9. Five tours culminated into tonight’s show. Can you name them all?
10. 200 People worked 24/7 to build up The Best of Armin Only’s show.
11. Armin’s first hit was Blue Fear, which he played again during #TheBestOfAO!
12. The show had 44 dancers, 22 live artists, 10 acrobats, 4 trampoline jumpers and 1 DJ.
13. We've had 12 months of preparations with a core team of 10 members.
14. 26 cameras and 5 broadcast trailers to show the world what’s happing in the ArenA tonight.
15. 3 days of load in, 1 day of rehearsals, 2 days of show and 2 days of load out.
16. Every night hosted 40.000 guests – that’s 80.000 Armin fans in one weekend!
17. People from 97(!) countries bought tickets to come to the #TheBestOfAO.
18. Armin created a limited edition set with two CDs and many extras for The Best of Armin Only.
19. Visitors are blown away by 62 lasers and 2.000 pyro cues tonight.
20. Armin performed on 5 continents, in a staggering 68 countries and he has done over 100 Armin Only shows.
