Both the track and the album figure in the rankings; one track played per CD. (The order is changed each year)
artist - album - track
0. Andrew Lahiff - Silver Droplets - unreleased, so given the rank of 0, but would be #1 if ever released. I never played this 2009 track on the Visionary Music Marathon, but it became my theme for my Mystic Music internet broadcast later.
1. Thom Brennan - Vibrant Water - title track
2. Kevin Kendle - Winter - Midwinter
3. David Parsons - Earthlight - Bathing Light
4. David Parsons - Parikrama - Dawa Gompa
5. Robert Carty - Starlight Volume 2 - Galactic Winds
6. David Parsons - Dhauladhar Dreaming - Kulu Days. The album was released under the title In the Footsteps of Padmashambhava. The track is now called Sojourn in the Kulu Valley
7. Robert Carty - Ethereal Deserts - Life Presence/Piercing the Blue
8. Kevin Kendle - Deep Skies 1: Light From Orion - Flame Nebula
9. Kevin Kendle - Deep Skies 2: Lagoon of Eternity - Ascella
10. Robert Carty - Starlight Volume 1 - Attracting Light
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. Robert Carty & Sylken - The Endless Vista - Desire of the Ages
16. Dean DeBenedictis - Salvaging the Past - Occur
17. Aetherium (Kevin Kendle) - Chakra Gold - Crown
18. Robert Carty - Oceanic Space - title track #1
19. Max Corbacho - Resonant Memory of Earth - title track
20. David Parsons - Jyoti - City of Spirits
21. Hemisphere - Attachment X - Parts 3,5,7
22. Steve Roach - Day Out of Time - The Dreamer Descends
23. Thom Brennan - Mist - Pond Life
24. Rudy Adrian - Desert Realms - Rocks Under Moonlight
25. Craig Padilla - Below the Mountain - First Light
26. Dan Pound - Trance Meditation - track 2
27. Klaus Schulze - Kontinuum - Thor (Thunder)
28. Steve Roach - New Life Dreaming - Deep Sky Time
29. Robert Carty - Mount Meru - Goin' Bye Bye
30. Thom Brennan - Silver - Part 3
31. Thom Brennan - Satori
32. Michael Whalen - like rain through my hands - part 5
33. Steve Roach - Dynamic Stillness
34. Steve Roach - Arc of Passion - Moment of Grace
35. Numina - Eye of the Nautilus - The Nautilus Chamber
36. various artists - Fahrenheit Project Part 6 - Sundial: Together, we are
37. Markus Reuter - The Longest in Terms of Being - Hold
38. Evan Bartholomew - Borderlands - Dream, between idea and emotion
39. Oliver Schroer - Camino - Grace
40. Cluster - Qua
41. Kevin Kendle - Deep Skies 3: Light from the Pleiades - Taygeta
42. Stellamara - The Seven Valleys - Baraka
43. Robert Carty - Dreaming Earth, Water Memories - Water Memories
44. M. Griffin & D. Fulton - The Most Distant Point Known - quadrature phase 1
45. Robert Rich & Ian Boddy - React - React
46. Loreena McKennitt - An Ancient Muse - Never Ending Road
47. Robert Rich - Bestiary - title track
48. Numina - Solace - Touching the Stem
49. Jeff Greinke - Virga
50. Numina - The Haunting Silence - Elsewhere and Here
runners up/climbers
David Parsons - Atma Yatra - Thom (unreleased)
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 - Echo of Small Things - Glint in Her Eye
Max Corbacho - Breath Stream - Temple of Dissolution
Alpha Wave Movement - Terra - Sky Geometry
Robert Rich - Temple of the Invisible - Antalieh
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