Below is our admittedly subjective list of the top 20 Contemporary Instrumental Music albums for August of 2018. We update this list monthly, around the fifteenth of the month.
| Rank | Artist | Album Title |
| 1 | Loreena McKinnett | Lost Souls |
| 2 | Jill Haley | The Waters of Glacier |
| 3 | Eamonn Karran | I’ll Be With You |
| 4 | Lynn Tredeau | Fellowship of Solitude |
| 5 | Darlene Koldenhoven | Chromatones |
| 6 | Kevin Wood | Eternal |
| 7 | Anastasia | Songs of The Soul |
| 8 | Tom Caufield | Deep Cuts From The Moral Wilderness |
| 9 | Fiona Joy | Story of Ghosts |
| 10 | Sherry Finzer & Mark Holland | Somewhere New |
| 11 | Rachel LaFond | Encounters of the Beautiful Kind |
| 12 | Symphonex Orchestra | Music That Tells A Story |
| 13 | Rhonda Mackert | Time Not Forgotten |
| 14 | Mark Dunn | Melodic Voyage |
| 15 | Loren Evarts | Home Again |
| 16 | Aurelia’s Light | Seasons |
| 17 | Brenda Warren | Beautiful Journey |
| 18 | Richard Noll | Peaceful Being |
| 19 | Terry Oldfield | Rhapsody |
| 20 | Stanton Lanier | So Loved |
