Steve Aoki Top Songs and Awards
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Aoki has received or been nominated for several industry accolades, both in annual competitions and magazine rankings. In 2007, he was named BPM Magazine’s Best Party Rocker DJ, Paper Magazine’s Best DJ of the Year, and the Ibiza Awards’ Best Set of the Season. In 2012, he was ranked No. 15 in DJ Magazine’s Top 100 DJs and was crowned America’s #2 Best DJ. In 2012, he received an EDM Effect Woodie Award from MTVu, and the following year, he received his first Grammy nomination.
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Aoki finished sixth in the 2013 America’s Best DJ competition held by DJ Times magazine, and eighth in 2013 and 2016. He placed tenth in DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs competition in 2014, 2015, and 2017. Aoki was awarded two Guinness World Records in 2014: the “longest crowd cheer” and the “most amount of glow sticks for thirty seconds.”
On May 21, 2015, Aoki played at the Ultra Music Festival in Miami Beach. He also holds the Guinness World Record for “most traveled musician in one year,” having performed 161 gigs in 41 countries in 2014.
Aoki has volunteered for several charities. EDM.com ranked him first among the 11 most generous EDM producers. He founded the Steve Aoki Charitable Fund to benefit global humanitarian assistance organizations and medical research. Aoki’s touring events, “memorabilia auctions,” and collaborations with other artists are among the organization’s fundraising efforts.
In early 2015, he was named a Best Buddies Global Ambassador, a non-profit organization dedicated to young people with developmental and intellectual disabilities. At the International Dance Music Awards at the time, MTV Latin America presented Aoki with the Chiuku Award for humanitarian activities.
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