The Top 1000 Trance songs of all time*

*some trance, that is.

Earlier this spring, Armada Music and Dancefoundation (a dance music-focused multimedia company), launched a web poll asking voters to choose their top 10 favorite trance songs of all time. The results have now been compiled into a top 1000 list, but not all of it is trance music.

Some of the tracks on the list are house and progressive-house releases, including a slew of tracks from deadmau5 such as "Arguru", "Not Exactly", and "Faxing Berlin". There's also a ton of Armin Van Buuren's less-publicized recent work. A coincidence considering the type of modern trance fans who are voting on this poll? Or not?

The top 20 are as follows:

1. Delerium feat. Sarah McLachlan - Silence (Tiësto's In Search Of Sunrise Remix)
2. Rank 1 - Airwave (Original Mix)
3. Motorcycle - As The Rush Comes (Gabriel & Dresden Sweeping Strings Remix)
4. Paul Oakenfold - Southern Sun (DJ Tiësto Remix)
5. Armin Van Buuren & Jan Vayne - Serenity (Original Mix)
6. Oceanlab - Satellite (Original Above & Beyond Mix)
7. Gaia - Tuvan (Original Mix)
8. Above & Beyond feat. Zoe Johnston - No One On Earth (Gabriel & Dresden Remix)
9. Gouryella - Gouryella (Original Mix)
10. Sasha - Xpander (Original Mix)
11. Paul van Dyk - For An Angel (Original Mix)
12. Armin van Buuren ft. Sharon Den Adel - In And Out Of Love (Original Mix)
13. System F - Out Of The Blue (Original Mix)
14. Yahel & Eyal Barkan - Voyage (Tiësto's Magikal Remake)
15. William Orbit - Barber's Adagio For Strings (Ferry Corsten Remix)
16. Dash Berlin feat. Emma Hewitt - Waiting (Original Mix)
17. Bedrock - Heaven Scent (Original Mix)
18. Chicane - Saltwater (Original Mix)
19. Above & Beyond feat. Andy Moor - Air for Life (Original Mix)
20. Cass & Slide - Perception (Original Mix

You can check the top 10 that I submitted here, but looking at that list now, I'd change it considering some of the songs I've heard this year.

The 1000 best trance songs of all time

In case you haven't heard already, Armada Music and the Dance Foundation have launched a new web site asking users to fill out their top 10 trance tracks of all time, with the goal of compiling a list of the top 1000 tracks. The results will be posted in the fall.

Although this is a cool idea, it's not hard to see that it's an obvious marketing tool for both sponsors, in the fact that they can:

- Find out who are the most popular artists not signed by Armada

- Survey what type of trance is the most popular with listeners

- Possibly make some CD compilation out of this?

Anyway, here is my top 10. Click on the links to listen.

1. Solarstone - Seven Cities (can't find the version I like on YouTube...too many mistagged videos)
2. Rank 1 - Airwave
3. Arctic Moon - True Romance
4. Solarstone - Late Summer Fields (Rain Stars Eternal Album Version)
5. Reconceal & Andy Blueman - The World To Come (Andy Blueman Remix)
6. Evbointh - One Wish (Daniel Kandi & Mark Andrez Remix)
7. Ferry Corsten - Galaxia (Aly & Fila Rework)
8. Solarstone - The Calling (RAM Remix)
9. Paul Van Dyk - Home
10. Oceania - Never Forget (Arctic Moon Remix)

Agree with this list? Disagree? What are your top 10 tracks?