DJ Magazine
Zimmerman was also named "Producer of 2007" by "DJ Magazine"'s 2007 Top 100 winner Armin van Buuren, and by runner up Tiësto. In 2008, he placed No. 11 in the "DJ Magazine" Top 100 poll, the highest new entry in the poll's history, showing Zimmerman's fast rise to prominence. Artists are nominated to the top 100 list for each year the public decides who they rank as the World's No 1 DJ at the end of the poll.