The top 150:

01. (01) Armin van Buuren (4.005 points)
02. (04) Ferry Corsten (3.010 points)
03. (02) Markus Schulz (2.903 points)
04. (03) Menno de Jong (2.023 points)
05. (06) Above & Beyond (1.430 points)
06. (14) Orjan Nilsen (1.361 points)
07. (10) Aly & Fila (1.240 points)
08. (05) Tiësto (1.233 points)
09. (18) John O'Callaghan (1.076 points)
10. (09) Leon Bolier (1.053 points)

11. (12) W&W (951 points)
12. (19) Dash Berlin (921 points)
13. (15) Sied van Riel (859 points)
14. (07) Gareth Emery (855 points)
15. (17) Cosmic Gate (741 points)
16. (16) Paul van Dyk (717 points)
17. (13) M.I.K.E. (626 points)
18. (11) Arty (616 points)
19. (-) Bryan Kearney (596 points)
20. (-) MaRLo (522 points)

21. (50) Paul Oakenfold (487 points)
22. (22) Deadmau5 (431 points)
23. (-) Sneijder (418 points)
24. (-) Giuseppe Ottaviani (392 points)
25. (32) Mat Zo (388 points)
26. (08) Sander van Doorn (376 points)
27. (24) Sebastian Brandt (365 points)
28. (-) Solarstone (364 points)
29. (45) Eco (348 points)
30. (-) Jordan Suckley (336 points)

31. (21) ATB (334 points)
32. (-) Orkidea (328 points)
33. (28) Richard Durand (325 points)
34. (27) Sean Tyas (323 points)
35. (25) Simon Patterson (318 points)
36. (-) KhoMha (289 points)
37. (-) Mr. Pit (267 points)
38. (-) Andrew Rayel (261 points)
39. (-) Omnia (259 points)
40. (-) Bart Claessen (254 points)

41. (-) John 00 Fleming (253 points)
42. (-) Gabriel & Dresden (251 points)
43. (-) Eric Prydz (249 points)
44. (-) Will Holland (244 points)
45. (-) Bjorn Akesson (239 points)
46. (-) Indecent Noise (225 points)
47. (-) Swedish House Mafia (221 points)
48. (-) Kai Tracid (217 points)
49. (-) Tritonal (216 points)
50. (41) Ashley Wallbridge (206 points)

51. BT
52. Michael Woods
53. Ferry Tayle
54. Jochen Miller
55. Andy Duguid
56. Calvin Harris
57. Andrew Bayer
58. Artento Divini
59. Shogun
60. Tucandeo
61. First State
62. Andy Moor
63. Hardwell
64. Jorn van Deynhoven
65. Yuri Kane
66. Manuel Le Saux
67. John Askew
68. Phynn
69. Masoud
70. Daniel Kandi
71. Ruben de Ronde
72. Airwave
73. Arnej
74. Nitrous Oxide
75. Alex M.O.R.P.H.
76. Ben Gold
77. tyDi
78. Airbase
79. Soundprank
80. Mark Leanings
81. The Thrillseekers
82. Super8 & Tab
83. Christopher Lawrence
84. Alexander Popov
85. Kyau & Albert
86. Avicii
87. Signum
88. Myon & Shane54
89. Neal Scarborough
90. Glenn Morrison
91. Robert Vadney
92. Arctic Moon
93. Marc Simz
94. Kay Wilder
95. Dennis Sheperd
96. Virtual Vault
97. Heatbeat
98. Roger Shah
99. Protoculture
100. Ronald de Foe

101. Neelix
102. Wezz Devall
103. Ummet Ozcan
104. Mark Sixma
105. Rank 1
106. Lange
107. Lisa Lashes
108. Ernesto vs. Bastian
109. Ben Nicky
110. Mark Sherry
111. Max Graham
112. Jaytech
113. Ronny K.
114. Tom Fall
115. Gofman & Tsukerman
116. Daniel Wanrooy
117. Mark Khoen
118. Tenishia
119. Temple One
120. Orla Feeney
121. Chris Schweizer
122. Aerofoil
123. Sasha
124. Basil O'Glue
125. Norin & Rad
126. Darren Porter
127. Laidback Luke
128. Marcus Schössow
129. Marcel Woods
130. Porter Robinson
131. Johan Ekman
132. Answer42
133. Talla 2XLC
134. Chicane
135. James Dymond
136. 4 Strings
137. Matt Bukovski
138. Ronski Speed
139. Estiva
140. Setrise
141. John Digweed
142. Tom Colontonio
143. Afrojack
144. Maor Levi
145. Fabio XB
146. Matt Bowdidge
147. Claudia Cazacu
148. Paul Webster
149. 16 Bit Lolitas
150. Wellenrausch

Daniel Kandi is already spamming around on Facebook and Twitter hehe:

Originally posted by Daniel Kandi

I have to laugh a little. Not in the top 50 of trancepodium DJ list... TRANCE <--- podium... Since when did I start donna summer and barry white tunes to not be in that list ... hmmm

Originally posted by Daniel Kandi

I shoulda spammed my wall, and I woulda been top 40 easily... haha but I didnt really bother.

At AWOT group:

Originally posted by Daniel Kandi

what u think AWOT ? should i play house ? im apparently not playing trance

Originally posted by Daniel Kandi

besides that, glad to see Armin win it!

A better comment from Bjorn Akesson:

Originally posted by Bjorn Akesson

Thanks everyone for voting me #45 on the TrancePodium Top 50 list!

Did I sense sarcasm in Daniel's posts? Seems to me like he DOES care after all

Not really happy with the list, tbh. I think public votes killed the list. Swedish House Mafia in top 50?

Originally posted by Semir

Did I sense sarcasm in Daniel's posts? Seems to me like he DOES care after all

Not really happy with the list, tbh. I think public votes killed the list. Swedish House Mafia in top 50?

Swedish House Maffia was voted #56 under the member's votes, so it's not just the public votes. We had those non-trance artists in the list last year as well when it was still 100% member votes. And especially the top 10 didn't change much from last year

Indecent Noise on Twitter:

Originally posted by Indecent Noise

Thanks for including me in your top 50 this year trancepodium :-)...

MaRLo on Twitter:

Originally posted by MaRLo

WOW! I was just told that I was voted #20 in Trance Podium top 50! Thank you so much to everyone who voted for me

MaRLo even made a pic of it:

...that's really got me annoyed ^^^ but I can see why he's got annoyed too.

Daniel Kandi has always been one of my favourites as a producer and DJ for as long as I can remember. His track, 'Child', was, and will always be, one of his best tracks. I even remember when he talked on ASOT about how he wanted to play the right style for the audience when really he should just play the right style for him - it gave me a chance to see Kandi as a genuine person and not as a Trance celebrity - trying to figure out his way and develop his career.

Admittedly, I would've loved him to have been further up the chart, but in hindsight, I didn't even vote for him.

Being out of the Trance scene for a bit, due to a busted laptop, loss of music and even no internet, I didn't get the chance to see the latest from my favourite artists. When I finally got back onto the internet, I downloaded the latest ASOT and went from there - which is sad because I didn't really check out the latest Kandi remix/track.

All I have to say to Kandi is he's a great artist, great producer and he has 'true fans' not just 'single-track' fans. But what I don't get is why he has to publish to the world about how stupid something like a simple poll is. How is being a douche gonna help anything? I'm sure there are long-time fans of Kandi on TrancePodium, and just because I didn't get the chance to see what he's done over the last year, doesn't mean he needs to be rowdy about.

It's wrong to say but if I'd seen more publicity in the UK, whether it be through online marketing or even local, I'd have given him a second look but it's hard to get past the big DJ's/commercialisation - and it's sad to say, 'second look', too, when it should be a 'first look'.

My rant is over, I just wish producers who push these sort of comments across the web would grow up. When they get the chance to play in front of thousands of people every week, entertain and give something to everyone who supports them, why is their a need to comment to fans like we don't care? Don't let DJ's turn into celebrities and instead appreciate the gift they have.

Saw Kandi at Luminosity Trance Gathering and it was one the worst sets I've seen the past few years

Originally posted by Remco

Swedish House Maffia was voted #56 under the member's votes, so it's not just the public votes. We had those non-trance artists in the list last year as well when it was still 100% member votes. And especially the top 10 didn't change much from last year

Yeah, I understand that, but it is still wrong. It's not like I always loved our top 50 from top to bottom, I just think we should've kept it members-only poll as we already did.

I remember you saying that you only got 8 votes from members and I believe that was around 2 weeks before the poll closes. So I believe this year non-members were far more superior than us.

No need to mention my disappointment about Dash Berlin. If this poll continues next year like this, we might be looking at a new Top 10 entry. Also, Tiësto definitely doesn't belong there (kinda strange that's coming from me, huh ).
Arty, Deadmau5 again overrated. And what's up with Omnia? It's not like people listened his sets, he is there only because he released The Fusion which was played by Armin only a million times.

Such a shame Mr. Pit & KhoMha aren't higher, as well as Tucandeo guys & Airwave, just to name a few...

Overall not a bad list at all.

Would of loved to see Menno higher as I felt he really deserved it, but hey its al good.

The top is a great group of talented artists and DJs and they deserve it!

Congratulations to the winners!

I've read comments asking about why there are some non-trance acts appearing in the results. Please note that although we are obviously a trance site, this poll was not advertised as exclusively "Trance DJ" poll. Our audience is mainly trance listeners, so of course most of the DJ's on the list will be trance, but that doesn't mean that non-trance DJ's will not appear in the results, especially those who have released/played trance music at some point in the past and have kept some of their trance fan base to this day.

At the end of the day, our winner Armin van Buuren himself has played a lot of tracks by Deadmau5, Swedish House Mafia and other acts which are not exclusively labelled as "trance", and all that in a show called "A State Of Trance".

"Don't be a prisoner of your own style!", right?

Armin tweeted it too:

Originally posted by Armin van Buuren

WOOHOO! RT @TrancePodium: Congratulations to @arminvanbuuren for winning the TrancePodium DJ Top 50 for the 3rd time!

Originally posted by Armin van Buuren

@TrancePodium Thank you very much guys!! all the support from fans is so important for me. Thank you to EVERYONE that voted. #TrancePodium

Check this tweet from Solarstone about pure trance:

Originally posted by Solarstone

Thanks @trancepodium for slotting Solarstone in at #28 in your Top50 and fab to see @djorkidea & @GOttaviani in there too #puretrance

Jordan Suckley:

Originally posted by Jordan Suckley

Thanks for the support in the 2012 Trancepodium top 50 !

Omnia:

Originally posted by Omnia

Thanx to everyone who vote for me @TrancePodium DJ Top 50! My first time in this top. #39

Wow, seriously, guys? I am reading your comments and I don't believe what I am reading. Makes me wanna quit the site for good right now. But good job, I guess

Originally posted by Shadowman

Wow, seriously, guys? I am reading your comments and I don't believe what I am reading. Makes me wanna quit the site for good right now. But good job, I guess

What comments do you mean?

I am amazed Daniel Kandi didn't make it. I am pretty sure I even voted for him.
Maybe we can vote for Andy Blueman next time and see what Kandi says about losing to a retiree

I'm glad Ferry moved up, I'd like to think I helped If it was Members Only it would have been Armin, Menno, Markus, Ferry most likely. I am also a bit disappointed with some of the positions and non-trance entries, but ya it makes sense and is not at all close to making an impact on our list

Hey Remco, nice job I'm sure you were involved and everyone else at TP Staff, especially Marjan. I did a mini experiment of sorts, I voted for MIKE twice, did it work? did he get only one vote and the vote for Push wasn't enough to get that alias listed? Interested how that is handled LOL

Unfortunately since I had to make up for forgetting about MIKE lat year I forgot about SvR AND Brandt this Year! Noooo, now I can't wait for next year
^_^