Below is our admittedly subjective list of the top 20 Contemporary Instrumental Music albums for September of 2017. Going forward, we will be updating this list monthly, on or around the fifteenth of each month.
| Rank | Artist | Album Title |
| 1 | Kerani | Stardust |
| 2 | Max Highstein | Flying Not Falling |
| 3 | Flow | Flow |
| 4 | Jim Stubblefield | Guitar Mystique |
| 5 | Timothy Crane | The Fall of A Sparrow |
| 5 | Fiona Joy | Into The Mist |
| 7 | Parijat | Blessings |
| 8 | Rachel LaFond | Wandering Soul |
| 9 | Tom Grant | Sipping Beauty |
| 10 | Peter Calandra | The Road Home |
| 11 | Sarah Copus | Moorland Winds |
| 12 | Lynn Tredeau | Shifting Sands |
| 13 | Mystic Journey | Kingdom of Mountains |
| 14 | David Wells | Songs of Joy |
| 15 | Lena Natalia | Almost Home |
| 16 | Lisa Swerdlow | Equus Rising |
| 17 | Deuter | Space |
| 18 | Sherry Finzer and Peter Sheridan | Traveler |
| 19 | Mark Freshwater | Songbook |
| 20 | Merrill Collins | Ethereal Escapes II |
