Armin van Buuren is in a position to listen to thousands of breaking records each year, featuring only the best of what comes his way on his world-renowned radio show A State of Trance. Choosing the best each week is no easy task — harder still is narrowing down the best of each month, and now, he’s selected his personal favorite 20 tunes of the entirety of 2014. Distilling the absolute essence of this year’s trance scene, these are the chosen 20 that made Armin’s grade.