Greatest Trance Songs (Revision Version)

[Lew]

Criteria: Songs listed are ranked based on impact, influence, and popularity in trance music.

Edited By: Jeff B. Lew, DDD forum
Last Updated: 2026-08-13

Link: https://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best ... songs.html
FYI: I changed the file name of this webpage from (best_dance-tran.html) to (best_dance-trance-songs.html).
The reason: The word "tran" can mean many other things and AI search tools take everything literally.
[There is a server "redirect" from the old URL to the new]

I kept Jeff's order for his top 100 and honorable mentions and added the newer songs.

Let me know of any typos, duplicates, newer songs, or possible changes to the rankings you think should be made.

1. The Age of Love (Jam & Spoon's Watch Out For Stella remix) - Age of Love
2. We Came in Peace - Dance 2 Trance
3. Acperience - Hardfloor
4. Café Del Mar (Three N One remix) - Energy 52
5. For An Angel (Angel in Heaven) (PVD's E-Werk remix) - Paul Van Dyk
6. Stella - Jam & Spoon
7. Mahadeva - Astral Projection
8. Children (Dream version) - Robert Miles
9. 1998 (Paul Van Dyk remix) - Binary Finary
10. The First Rebirth - Jones & Stephenson
11. Sirius - Armin van Buuren & AVIRA
12. Loops and Tings - Jens
13. Schoneberg (Marmion remix) - Marmion
14. The House of House - Cherry Moon Trax
15. Dreams - Quench
16. This Is What It Feels Like - Armin van Buuren (feat. Trevor Guthrie)
17. Love Stimulation (PVD remix) - Paul Van Dyk pres. Humate
18. Two Full Moons and a Trout (Exclusive 14 remix) - Union Jack
19. LSD - Hallucinogen
20. Beachball - Nalin & Kane
21. Offshore - Chicane with Power Circle
22. Flaming June (B.T. and PVD remix) - B.T.
23. The Orange Theme - Cygnus X
24. Are Am Eye - Commander Tom
25. Calling Earth - Yves Deruyter
26. Out-of-Body Experience - Rabbit in the Moon
27. How Much Can You Take? - Visions of Shiva
28. Blah Blah Blah - Armin van Buuren
29. Camargue - C.J. Bolland
30. Pulverturm - Neils Van Gogh
31. Hello San Francisco - Dance 2 Trance
32. Superstring (Rank 1 remix) - Cygnus X
33. Madagasca (Ferry Corsten remix) - Art of Trance
34. High on Life - Martin Garrix (feat. Bonn)
35. Sandstorm - DaRude
36. 9 PM (Till I Come) - ATB
37. Not Over Yet (original, '99) - Planet Perfecto pres. Grace
38. Silence (DJ Tiësto in Search of Sunrise remix) - Delerium (feat. Sarah McLachlan)
39. Amphetamine - Drax Ltd.
40. Lost In Love - Legend B.
41. It's Our Future - AWEX
42. Acid Phase - Emmanuel Top
43. Techno-Trance - D-Shake
44. New Horizons (A State of Trance 650 Anthem) - Jorn Van Deynhoven
45. Turkish Bazaar - Emmanuel Top
46. L'Esperanza - Sven Vath
47. Loops Of Infinity (Contemplative) (Arpeggiators remix) - Cosmic Baby
48. No Fate - Zyon
49. Saltwater (Tomski vs Disco Citizens remix) - Chicane (feat. Maire Brennan)
50. Ready to Flow - Nikolai
51. Turn The World Into a Dancefloor (ASOT 1000 Anthem) - Armin van Buuren
52. Synaesthesia (Fly Away) - Thrillseekers (feat. Sheryl Deane)
53. Barber's Adagio for Strings (Ferry Corsten remix) - William Orbit
54. Universal Nation (The Real Anthem) - Push
55. Anomaly...Calling Your Name (Granny's Epicure remix) - Libra Pres. Taylor
56. Kernkraft 400 (EP version) - Zombie Nation
57. Meet Her At the Love Parade - Da Hool
58. Seven Days and One Week - B.B.E.
59. Concrete Angel - Gareth Emery (feat. Christina Novelli)
60. Greece 2000 - Three Drives on a Vinyl
61. Toca's Miracle - Fragma
62. Halcyon - Orbital
63. Out of the Blue - System F
64. El Nino - Agnelli & Nelson
65. Gouryella - Gouryella
66. Everytime (Nalin & Kane remix) - Lustral
67. Ayla (Part I, Part II) - Ayla
68. Carte Blanche - Vera Cocha
69. Be Your Sound - Cosmic Gate & Emma Hewitt
70. Encore Une Fois! (Future Breeze remix) - Sash!
71. Find Yourself - John O'Callaghan (feat. Sarah Howells)
72. Invisible (Lost Tribe remix) - Tilt
73. Everyday (Lange remix) - Agnelli & Nelson
74. Satellite - Above & Beyond & Oceanlab
75. Nightmare (Sinister Strings rmix) - Brainbug
76. Waterfall - Atlantic Ocean
77. Xpander - Sasha
78. Reckless - Gareth Emery (feat. Wayward Daughter)
79. 10 in 01 (PVD's Only remix) - Members of Mayday
80. Gamemaster - Lost Tribe
81. Echo - Hardwell (feat. Jonathan Mendelsohn)
82. The Silence - Mike Koglin
83. Cream (Paul Van Dyk remix) - Blank & Jones
84. Das Glockenspiel - Schiller
85. Heaven Scent - Bedrock
86. Airwave (Breathing (Rank 1 vs Dutch Force remix) - Rank 1
87. Seven Cities (Solar Stone's Atlantis remix) - Solar Stone
88. Suburban Train - DJ Tiësto
89. Adagio for Strings - Tiësto
90. Follow Me - Jam & Spoon
91. Instant Moments - R.O.O.S.
92. Not Giving Up on Love - Armin van Buuren & Sophie Ellis-Bextor
93. Sonic Empire - Members of Mayday
94. Where You Are - John Summit (with Hayla)
95. Blue Fear - Armin van Buuren
96. Finished Symphony (Hybrid's Echoplex remix) - Hybrid
97. All Over Again - Bryan Kearney & Plumb
98. Komodo (Save a Soul) - Mauro Picotto
99. Someone - Ascension
100. Don't Wake Me Up - DJ Shah (feat. Inger Hansen)
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101. Lost in Space - Armin van Buuren & Jorn Van Deynhoven
102. Psycho - Infected Mushroom
103. Rez - Underworld
104. Vernons Wonderland - Vernon
105. Paraglide - Paragliders
106. Black Hole - Craig Connelly & Christina Novelli
107. The Meltdown (Pascal F.E.O.S. remix) - Lunatic Asylum
108. Cybertrance - Blue Alphabet
109. Saving Light - Gareth Emery and Standerwick (feat.Haliene)
110. Dream Universe - CM
111. Double Dragons - Doof
112. Kinetic - Golden Girls
113. Exactly - John O'Callaghan with Bryan Kearney
114. Cosmo - Super8 & Tab
115. Fragile - LSG
116. Right in the Night (Fall in Love with Music) - Jam & Spoon
117. X-File - Chakra & Edi Mis
118. Don't Give Up - Chicane (feat. Bryan Adams)
119. Polar Ice (Adam Nickey Remix) - Elias B
120. The Awakening - York
121. Southern Sun - Paul Oakenfold
122. Touch Me - Rui Da Silva (feat. Cassandra)
123. Like a Waterfall - Solarstone (feat. JES)
124. Liberation (Temptation - Fly Like An Eagle) - Matt Darey pres. Mash-Up (feat. Marcella Woods)
125. Teleport - Man with No Name
126. Alien (Intro Mix) - Omnia
127. Ritual of Life - Sven Vath
128. Ascend - Dezko
129. Easter Island - Art of Trance
130. Jewel - Solarstone (feat. Clare Stagg)
131. Access - DJ Misjah & DJ Tim
132. Listening - Aly & Fila (feat. Josie)
133. Be As One - Sasha & Maria Nayler
134. Narcotic Influence - Empirion
135. Sunshine Blue - Denis Kenzo & Sveta B.
136. Hymn - Moby
137. Acid Killer - Infected Mushroom
138. Human - Resistance D.
139. Sun & Moon - Above & Beyond (feat. Richard Bedford)
140. Aliens - Total Eclipse
141. Symmetry C - Brainchild
142. Positron - Cygnus X
143. Samurai - Juno Reactor
144. Seven Cities (Solarstone's Atlantis Mix) - Solarstone
145. Workstation - DJ Looney Tune
146. Cowgirl - Underworld
147. Tell Me Why - Paul Van Dyk (feat. Saint Etienne)
148. Last Train to Lhasa - Banco De Gaia
149. Bloom (Intro Mix) - Sultan + Shepard
150. Obsession - Fuzzy Logic
151. Made of Love - Ferry Corsten (feat. Betsie Larkin)
152. Halcyon and On and On - Orbital
153. It's a Fine Day - Opus III
154. Open Your Mind - Usura
155. Voyage - Yahel & Eyal Barkan
156. Supernova - Transa
157. Dreaming (DJ Tiësto remix) - B.T. (feat. Kirsty Hawkshaw)
158. Red Herring - Union Jack
159. Reincarnation - Country & Western
160. Sweet Dreams for Kaa - Cosmic Baby
161. Fly Away (Thrillseekers remix) - Vincent De Moor pres. Emerald
162. Hale Bopp - Der Dritte Raum
163. Dimension (Voices of Reason remix) - Salt Tank
164. Neuro '99 - X Cabs
165. Aira Force (Lemon 8 remix) - Arrakis
166. Air - Albion
167. Exploration of Space - Cosmic Gate
168. Atlantis - DJ Taucher
169. Wave Speech - Peter Lazonby
170. Floor-Essence - Man with No Name
171. Transformation - Transform
172. Let There Be House - Cherry Moon Trax
173. The Milky Way - Aurora Borealis
174. Divine Moments of Truth - Shpongle
175. Together (Phase I) - Talla 2XLC vs Taucher
176. Bellisima - DJ Quicksilver
177. Now & Forever - M.I.K.E. Push & Plastic Boy
178. Happiness Happening (Lange remix) - Lost Witness
179. Join Me - Lightforce
180. Wide Eyed Angel (Inversion remix) - Origin
181. Escape (original, 2000) - Kay Cee
182. Eternity (Rising Star edit) - Armin Van Buuren & Alibi
183. Godspeed - B.T.
184. Wonderfooled - SHato & Paul Rockseek
185. Prologue (The Carl Cox/Paul Van Dyk remix) - Tenth Chapter
186. The Chain - Breeder
187. Born Slippy Nuxx (2003) (Paul Oakenfold remix) - Underworld
188. Irufushi - Super8 & Tab
189. Summersault - Taste Experience
190. Resurrection - P.P.K.
191. Reincarnations - Steve Morley
192. Ubik (The Dance) (original instrumental) - Timo Maas
193. And She Does - Quivver
194. Inner Laugh - Roland Klinkenberg
195. Perception - Cass & Slide
196. Tomorrow (Lange remix) - DuMonde
197. Perfect Day - Visions of Shiva
198. Hydrophonix - Cybernaut
199. The Baguio Track - Luzon
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200. Bulgarian (Signum remix) - Travel
201. We Came - Vimana
202. Space Manouvres - Stage One
203. Follow Me '97 - Space Frog
204. These Days - Petter
205. Nothing (93 Returning remix) - James Holden
206. Mantra - CJ Bolland
207. Parasight - Balil
208. Seaside Atmosphere - Stef, Pako, & Frederick
209. Time to Burn - Storm
210. Floating - Terra Ferma
211. Heaven's Earth (Matt Darey remix) - Delerium
212. Sparkles (Transa remix) - DJ Tiësto
213. Lethal Industry - DJ Tiësto
214. Purple (Sasha vs The Light remix) - Gus Gus
215. The Gift - Way Out West (feat. Joanna Law)
216. Sunchyme (remapped by Coloured Oxygen) - Dario G
217. And Then the Rain Falls - Blue Amazon
218. What Ya Got 4 Me? - Signum
219. Amorph - Spicelab
220. I Trance You (Pappa & Gilbey remix) - Gypsy
221. Karma - Tarantella
222. Waves (E-Mission remix) - Redanka
223. My Name Is Barbarella - Barbarella
224. Shamanix - Hallucinogen
225. Stringer (Who Do You Love Now?) - Riva with Dannii Minogue
226. The Wave (DJ Taucher remix) - Sosa
227. A Night Out - Moogwai
228. Communication - Armin
229. Touch Me (Rising Star remix) - Armin Van Buuren pres. Rising Star
230. Bleckentrommel - Tiësto, Storm, & Montana
231. Transcend - Cascade
232. Deadline - Dutch Force
233. Did You Hear Me? (Phase II remix) - Red Light District
234. Close Cover - Minimalistix
235. Time - The Dream Traveler
236. Kabalah - Astral Projection (feat. DJ Jorg)
237. North Pole - Solid Globe
238. Requiem for a Dream - Leama
239. Afterglow - Cosmosis
240. Animals - Yves Deruyter
241. Angelfalls (Elemental Force remix) - Ayla
242. Silence - DJ Tomcraft
243. You Won't See Me Cry (Deepsky's Desert Farewell remix) - Markus Schulz
244. Beautiful Things (Gabriel & Dresden Unplugged remix) - Andain
245. Wide Open Space (Perfecto mix) - Mansun
246. Your Spirit is Shining (Frank-E & Mars remix) - Pulsedriver
247. I Believe - Lange (feat. The Morrighan)
248. Forbidden Fruit (East of Eden remix) - Paul Van Dyk
249. The Silmarillia - Carlos
250. Fire - Ferry Corsten (feat. Simon Le Bon)


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OLD LIST

Edited By: Jeff B.
Last Updated: 2007-11-13

1. The Age of Love (Jam & Spoon's Watch Out For Stella remix) - Age of Love
2. We Came in Peace - Dance 2 Trance
3. Acperience - Hardfloor
4. Café Del Mar (Three N One remix) - Energy 52
5. For An Angel (Angel in Heaven) (PVD's E-Werk remix) - Paul Van Dyk
6. Stella - Jam & Spoon
7. Mahadeva - Astral Projection
8. Children (Dream version) - Robert Miles
9. 1998 (Paul Van Dyk remix) - Binary Finary
10. The First Rebirth - Jones & Stephenson
11. Loops and Tings - Jens
12. Schoneberg (Marmion remix) - Marmion
13. The House of House - Cherry Moon Trax
14. Dreams - Quench
15. Love Stimulation (PVD remix) - Paul Van Dyk pres. Humate
16. Two Full Moons and a Trout (Exclusive 14 remix) - Union Jack
17. LSD - Hallucinogen
18. Beachball - Nalin & Kane
19. Offshore - Chicane with Power Circle
20. Flaming June (B.T. and PVD remix) - B.T.
21. The Orange Theme - Cygnus X
22. Are Am Eye - Commander Tom
23. Calling Earth - Yves Deruyter
24. Out-of-Body Experience - Rabbit in the Moon
25. How Much Can You Take? - Visions of Shiva
26. Camargue - C.J. Bolland
27. Pulverturm - Neils Van Gogh
28. Hello San Francisco - Dance 2 Trance
29. Superstring (Rank 1 remix) - Cygnus X
30. Madagasca (Ferry Corsten remix) - Art of Trance
31. Sandstorm - DaRude
32. 9 PM (Till I Come) - ATB
33. Not Over Yet (original, '99) - Planet Perfecto pres. Grace
34. Silence (DJ Tiesto in Search of Sunrise remix) - Delerium feat. Sarah McLachlan
35. Amphetamine - Drax Ltd.
36. Lost In Love - Legend B.
37. It's Our Future - AWEX
38. Acid Phase - Emmanuel Top
39. Techno-Trance - D-Shake
40. Turkish Bazaar - Emmanuel Top
41. L'Esperanza - Sven Vath
42. Loops Of Infinity (Contemplative) (Arpeggiators remix) - Cosmic Baby
43. No Fate - Zyon
44. Saltwater (Tomski vs Disco Citizens remix) - Chicane feat. Maire Brennan of Clannad
45. Ready to Flow - Nikolai
46. Synaesthesia (Fly Away) - Thrillseekers feat. Sheryl Deane
47. Barber's Adagio for Strings (Ferry Corsten remix) - William Orbit
48. Universal Nation (The Real Anthem) - Push
49. Anomaly...Calling Your Name (Granny's Epicure remix) - Libra Pres. Taylor
50. Kernkraft 400 (EP version) - Zombie Nation
51. Meet Her At the Love Parade - Da Hool
52. Seven Days and One Week - B.B.E.
53. Greece 2000 - Three Drives on a Vinyl
54. Toca's Miracle - Fragma
55. Out of the Blue - System F
56. El Nino - Agnelli & Nelson
57. Gouryella - Gouryella
58. Everytime (Nalin & Kane remix) - Lustral
59. Ayla (Part I, Part II) - Ayla
60. Carte Blanche - Vera Cocha
61. Liberation (Temptation - Fly Like An Eagle) - Matt Darey pres. Mash-Up feat. Marcella Woods
62. Encore Une Fois! (Future Breeze remix) - Sash!
63. Invisible (Lost Tribe remix) - Tilt
64. Everyday (Lange remix) - Agnelli & Nelson
65. Nightmare (Sinister Strings rmix) - Brainbug
66. Waterfall - Atlantic Ocean
67. Xpander - Sasha
68. 10 in 01 (PVD's Only remix) - Members of Mayday
69. Gamemaster - Lost Tribe
70. The Silence - Mike Koglin
71. Cream (Paul Van Dyk remix) - Blank & Jones
72. Das Glockenspiel - Schiller
73. Heaven Scent - Bedrock
74. Airwave (Breathing (Rank 1 vs Dutch Force remix) - Rank 1
75. Seven Cities (Solar Stone's Atlantis remix) - Solar Stone
76. Suburban Train - DJ Tiesto
77. Psycho - Infected Mushroom
78. Follow Me - Jam & Spoon
79. Teleport - Man with No Name
80. Instant Moments - R.O.O.S.
81. Sonic Empire - Members of Mayday
82. Blue Fear - Armin
83. Finished Symphony (Hybrid's Echoplex remix) - Hybrid
84. Komodo (Save a Soul) - Mauro Picotto
85. Someone - Ascension
86. Rez - Underworld
87. Vernons Wonderland - Vernon
88. Paraglide - Paragliders
89. The Meltdown (Pascal F.E.O.S. remix) - Lunatic Asylum
90. Cybertrance - Blue Alphabet
91. Dream Universe - CM
92. Double Dragons - Doof
93. Kinetic - Golden Girls
94. Fragile - LSG
95. Right in the Night (Fall in Love with Music) - Jam & Spoon
96. X-File - Chakra & Edi Mis
97. Don't Give Up - Chicane feat. Bryan Adams
98. The Awakening - York
99. Southern Sun - Paul Oakenfold
100. Touch Me - Rui Da Silva feat. Cassandra

[Lew]

I'm going to update this list that hasn't been updated in 19 years.

Adding these 25 newer songs.
If you have any suggestions for more trance songs, let me know.

Waiting For The Night - Armin van Buuren (feat. Fiora)
Concrete Angel - Gareth Emery (feat. Christina Novelli)
Not Giving Up on Love - Armin van Buuren & Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Reckless - Gareth Emery (feat. Wayward Daughter)
Saving Light - Gareth Emery and Standerwick (feat.Haliene)
Fire - Ferry Corsten (feat. Simon Le Bon)
Made of Love - Ferry Corsten (feat. Betsie Larkin)
Blah Blah Blah - Armin van Buuren
On A Good Day - Above & Beyond
Sun & Moon - Above & Beyond (featuring Richard Bedford)
Sirens of the Sea (Above & Beyond Club Mix) Above & Beyond presents OceanLab
Find Yourself - John O'Callaghan (feat. Sarah Howells)
Be Your Sound - Cosmic Gate & Emma Hewitt
digidi digidi - DJ.Ilham
Where You Are - John Summit (with Hayla)
Now & Forever - M.I.K.E. Push & Plastic Boy
Alien (Intro Mix) - Omnia
High on Life - Rodg
Sunshine Blue - Denis Kenzo & Seta B.
Sirius - Armin van Buuren & Paul Oakenfold
Lost in Space - Armin van Buuren & Jorn Van Deynhoven
Euphoric Dreams - Aly & Fila (feat. Jaren)
Lifting You Higher (ASOT 900 Anthem) - Armin van Buuren
Cosmo - Super8 &Tab
Bloom - Sultan + Shepard

[ManPerson]

Some songs that should probably be added:
Adagio for Strings - Tiesto
Better Off Alone - Alice Deejay
Halcyon - Orbital
Kernkraft 400 - Zombie Nation
Satellite - Oceanlab

[Lew]

The list has been updated.
Let me know what changes you would make.