Chillout Sessions is a series of compilations released by Ministry of Sound that focus on songs from the chillout genre. Songs on Chillout Sessions compilations vary in style from lounge to electronica and are released by many different artists. Ministry of Sound started the series again in January 2006, with an album titled simply The Chillout Sessions (titled to reflect the fact that it was a reboot for the series). This album had good sales but there were no subsequent releases. The Chillout Session 2 is the second installment in the series and was released on 3 July 2001 in the United Kingdom and Australia. It reached #2 in the UK compilation album chart.

Chillout Sessions XV is the fifteenth installment of the Chillout Sessions series of compilations, released by Ministry of Sound.Chillout Sessions XI is the eleventh installment of the Chillout Sessions series of compilations, released by Ministry of Sound. It is the first of the Chillout Sessions to use Roman Numerals in the title, instead of standard numbers. The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for music. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Chillout Sessions XIX is the nineteenth installment of the Chillout Sessions series of compilations, released by Ministry of Sound. The fourth installment album in the series was released in May 2011, Chilled Afterhours. It is an album designed for "after hours" playing.

The Chillout Session is the first compilation in the series and was released on 5 February 2001 in the United Kingdom and Australia. Its cover image is used again for The Chillout Guide later in the year. Its cover image was actually first used in 1998 in the booklet of The Annual IV and later as the cover for the Ministry of Sound book The Manual. Some Chillout Sessions albums have become known and distinguishable for the symbol of a turntable (with the Ministry of Sound logo on it) frozen in ice, or in one case ( The Summer Collection 2003) the turntable itself is made of ice. In the UK this motif is used on the covers of volumes 1, 2, The Winter Collection (2003), The Summer Collection 2003, and The Very Best of album. In Australia, the image is used for volumes 1–6 except on volume 3. The idea of the turntable with the Ministry of Sound logo on had been used on the covers of the Ministry of Sound Clubbers Guide in prior years (and in The Annual IV), the idea of such turntable on the covers was last used on Clubbers Guide albums in early 2001 when The Chillout Session began using the idea.

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Chillout Sessions XVII is the seventeenth installment of the Chillout Sessions series of compilations, released by Ministry of Sound. Chillout Sessions 7 is the seventh installment of the Chillout Sessions series of compilations, released by Ministry of Sound. A similar series started in Australia, where the series changed its name from The Chillout Session to The Chillout Sessions and then simply to Chillout Sessions and continued until 2016 with XIX until the record label rebranded to TMRW following the acquisition of MoS by Sony in the UK. In 2016, the Ministry of Sound UK record label was sold to Sony Music. The label is run as an independent and split between A&R and Compilations. The Compilations team were retained when moving to Sony.

Chillout Sessions 8 is the eighth installment in the Chillout Sessions series, released by Ministry of Sound. Chillout Sessions 10 is the tenth installment of the Chillout Sessions series of compilations, released by Ministry of Sound. In Australia, the series has been a continued success from Volume 3 in 2002. In a different approach from the UK, the Australian series maintained the numbering system as a suffix in its titles, with only the "Best of..." style album Chillout Classics omitting a number from the title. Chillout Sessions 4 is the fourth installment in the series. It was the first to remove "The" from the title, leaving the series title simply 'Chillout Sessions'.Chillout Sessions 9 is the ninth installment in the Chillout Sessions series, released by Ministry of Sound. Although well received, some criticism has been made for CD 3 of the album, with many describing it as dance music rather than chill out. Chillout Sessions XVIII is the eighteenth installment of the Chillout Sessions series of compilations, released by Ministry of Sound. The cover art for the album used on the slipcase depicts the Ministry of Sound logo uprising out of water.