| 1 | 1978 | Ambient 1: Music for Airports | Brian Eno | Album | 4.05 | 15 |
| 2 | 1994 | Selected Ambient Works, Volume II | Aphex Twin | Album | 4.15 | 18 |
| 3 | 2013 | The Disintegration Loops | William Basinski | Album + Compilation | | 3 |
| 4 | 1969 | A Rainbow in Curved Air | Terry Riley | Album | 4.5 | 8 |
| 5 | 1990 | Chill Out | The KLF | Album | 3.5 | 6 |
| 6 | 2001 | The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid | Stars of the Lid | Album | 3.75 | 4 |
| 7 | 1995 | 94diskont. | Oval | Album | 4 | 5 |
| 8 | 1989 | Deep Listening | Pauline Oliveros / Stuart Dempster / Panaiotis | Album | 4 | 3 |
| 9 | 2006 | Harmony in Ultraviolet | Tim Hecker | Album | 4 | 1 |
| 10 | 1975 | Evening Star | Fripp & Eno | Album | 3.15 | 5 |
| 11 | 2000 | Pop | Gas | Album | 4.75 | 4 |
| 12 | 1980 | The Expanding Universe | Laurie Spiegel | Album | | 4 |
| 13 | 1983 | Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks | Brian Eno | Album | 4.3 | 16 |
| 14 | 2011 | An Empty Bliss Beyond This World | The Caretaker | Album | 4.15 | 3 |
| 15 | 1979 | Automatic Writing | Robert Ashley | Album | 3 | 3 |
| 16 | 1972 | Persian Surgery Dervishes | Terry Riley | Album | 4 | 3 |
| 17 | 1982 | Turiya Sings | Alice Coltrane | Album | | 2 |
| 18 | 2007 | And Their Refinement of the Decline | Stars of the Lid | Album | 4 | 5 |
| 19 | 1995 | Orbus Terrarum | Orb | Album | 3.5 | 7 |
| 20 | 2011 | Replica | Oneohtrix Point Never | Album | 4 | 9 |
| 21 | 2011 | A I A : Alien Observer | Grouper | Album | 3 | 3 |
| 22 | 2001 | Endless Summer | Fennesz | Album | 3.65 | 7 |
| 23 | 2002 | Playthroughs | Keith Fullerton Whitman | Album | 5 | 3 |
| 24 | 1982 | Ambient 4: On Land | Brian Eno | Album | 4.6 | 10 |
| 25 | 1997 | What?? | Folke Rabe | Album | | 1 |
| 26 | 1975 | Inter-Dimensional Music | Iasos | Album | | 9 |
| 27 | 2009 | Rifts | Oneohtrix Point Never | Album + Compilation | | 4 |
| 28 | 1982 | Accordion & Voice | Pauline Oliveros | Album | 3 | 2 |
| 29 | 1978 | On the Other Ocean | David Behrman | Album | | 2 |
| 30 | 2011 | The Magic Place | Julianna Barwick | Album | 3 | 4 |
| 31 | 1976 | New Age of Earth | Ash Ra Tempel, Manuel Göttsching | Album | 4 | 6 |
| 32 | 1999 | The Tamburas of Pandit Pran Nath | La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela | Album | 3 | 1 |
| 33 | 1984 | Structures From Silence | Steve Roach | Album | 4.4 | 7 |
| 34 | 1974 | Four Manifestations on Six Elements | Charlemagne Palestine | Album | | 2 |
| 35 | 1980 | Ambient 3: Day of Radiance | Laraaji | Album | 4 | 4 |
| 36 | 1998 | Depths | Windy & Carl | Album | | 2 |
| 37 | 2013 | Virgins | Tim Hecker | Album | 4.25 | 3 |
| 38 | 1997 | Substrata | Biosphere | Album | 4.25 | 12 |
| 39 | 2016 | Buchla Concerts 1975 | Suzanne Ciani | Album | | 2 |
| 40 | 2015 | Sleep | Max Richter | Album | 4 | 3 |
| 41 | 1984 | The Pearl | Harold Budd/Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois | Album | 4.25 | 11 |
| 42 | 2002 | Plays | Ekkehard Ehlers | Album + Compilation | | 2 |
| 43 | 2005 | Talk Amongst the Trees | Eluvium | Album | 4.5 | 3 |
| 44 | 1996 | _snd | Microstoria | Album | | 2 |
| 45 | 2016 | For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have) | Huerco S. | Album | 5 | 2 |
| 46 | 1975 | Epsilon in Malaysian Pale | Edgar Froese | Album | | 4 |
| 47 | 1977 | Vernal Equinox | Jon Hassell | Album | 4 | 4 |
| 48 | 1975 | Neighborhoods | Ernest Hood | Album | | 3 |
| 49 | 2014 | Tomorrow Was the Golden Age | Bing & Ruth | Album | | 2 |
| 50 | 2004 | Morals and Dogma | Deathprod | Album | 4 | 3 |
