Tiesto Given Edison Pop Music Award -- Joining David Bowie, U2 & Others

Dutch dance music legend Tiësto was just given one of the highest awards a musician can be awarded in Holland. With Martin Garrix along to present, the "Wasted" DJ was given the Edison Pop Oeuvre Lifetime Achievement Award on RTL Late Night, a talk show program in Holland. First awarded in 1960, the annual Dutch prize is one of the oldest music prizes in the world and has named artists like U2, David Bowie, The Beach Boys, Quincy Jones and Stevie Wonder as some of its recipients.

It is given to those artists to celebrate their outstanding achievement within the industry.

Despite Holland's long history with dance music and pumping out internationally recognized DJs, this is the first time the award has been given to a DJ.

The selection committee chose Tiësto for his longtime work in dance music, how he has broken ground for the genre and inspired others.

His presenter, Martin Garrix remains one of his most successful protégés, alongside others like Hardwell, Afrojack and Oliver Heldens who all left him with short video messages during the ceremony. Some of milestones cited by the judging committee include he was the first Dutch DJ to be named the most popular DJ in the world three times, the first DJ to give a solo show in a stadium and the first to perform at the Olympic Games - occurring in 2004 for the Athens summer games.

He is an Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau and helped bring trance to a large audience in the late 1990s and then dance music to a global audience in the late 2000s and early 2010s, continuing today. Watch the presentation below, though it is in Dutch.

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