Both the track and the album figure in the rankings; one track played per CD. (The order is changed each year)
artist - album - track
1. Thom Brennan - Vibrant Water - title track
2. Kevin Kendle - Winter - Midwinter
3. David Parsons - Earthlight - Bathing Light/Altai Himalaya
4. David Parsons - Parikrama - Dawa Gompa
5. David Parsons - Dhauladhar Dreaming - Kulu Days
6. Robert Carty - Ethereal Deserts - Life Presence/Piercing the Blue
7. Kevin Kendle - Deep Skies 1: Light From Orion - Flame Nebula
8. Kevin Kendle - Deep Skies 2: Lagoon of Eternity - Ascella
9. Robert Carty - Starlight Volume 1 - Attracting Light
10. Robert Carty & Sylken - The Endless Vista - Desire of the Ages
11. Steve Roach - Mystic Chords and Sacred Spaces - Within the Mystic
12. David Parsons - Maitreya the Future Buddha - Shamballa
13. Numina - Evolving Visions - An Imposing Presence
14. Max Corbacho - The Talisman - Reborn to Expansion/Connected Spirits
15. Dean DeBenedictis - Salvaging the Past - Occur
16. Robert Carty - Oceanic Space - title track #1
17. Max Corbacho - Resonant Memory of Earth - title track
18. Hemisphere - Attachment X - Parts 3,5,7
19. Steve Roach - Day Out of Time - The Dreamer Descends
20. Thom Brennan - Mist - Pond Life
21. Aetherium (Kevin Kendle) - Chakra Gold - Crown
22. Rudy Adrian - Desert Realms - Rocks Under Moonlight
23. Craig Padilla - Below the Mountain - First Light
24. Steve Roach - Arc of Passion - Moment of Grace
25. Klaus Schulze - Kontinuum - Thor (Thunder)
26. Dan Pound - Trance Meditation
27. Robert Carty - Mount Meru - Goin' Bye Bye
28. Thom Brennan - Silver - Part 3
29. Thom Brennan - Satori
30. Evan Bartholomew - Borderlands - Dream, between idea and emotion
31. Numina - Eye of the Nautilus - The Nautilus Chamber
32. Michael Whalen - like rain through my hands - part 5
33. Steve Roach - New Life Dreaming - Deep Sky Time
34. Kevin Kendle - Deep Skies 3: Light from the Pleiades - Taygeta
35. Markus Reuter - The Longest in Terms of Being - Hold
36. David Parsons - Atma Yatra - Thom
37. Robert Carty - Dreaming Earth, Water Memories - Water Memories
38. M. Griffin & D. Fulton - The Most Distant Point Known - quadrature phase 1
39. Robert Rich - Echo of Small Things - Glint in Her Eye
40. Loreena McKennitt - An Ancient Muse - Never Ending Road
41. various artists - Fahrenheit Project Part 6 - Sundial: Together, we are
42. Robert Rich - Temple of the Invisible - Antalieh
43. Robert Rich - Bestiary - title track
44. Numina - Solace - Touching the Stem
45. Stellamara - The Seven Valleys - Baraka
runners up
Numina - The Haunting Silence - Elsewhere and Here
Vir Unis - Aeonian Glow - Flying Dream
Robert Carty - Seratonin Ashram - Garunda Valley
various artists - Tracks Across the Universe - David Parsons: Ago
Bruno Sanfilippo - Visualia - IV
Robert Rich & Ian Boddy - React - React
Alpha Wave Movement - Terra - Sky Geometry
Max Corbacho - Breath Stream - Temple of Dissolution
Lisa Gerrard/Patrick Cassidy - Immortal Memory - Psallit in Aure Dei
Deborah Martin & J. Arif Verner - Anno Domini - Spiritus/title track
Markus Reuter & Robert Rich - Eleven Questions - (a track starting with an R!)
Bruno Sanfilippo - InTRO - InTROsacro or InTROvisions
Jeff Greinke - Wide View - One September
David Parsons - Vajra - Masked Dancer
Craig Padilla - Genesis - Toward the Within
David Parsons - Inner Places - track 3
Numina/Caul - Inside the Hollow Realm - A Brief Reprieve
Numina - Transparent Planet - Further Entwined