Reload (Tom Jones album)

Reload
Studio album by Tom Jones
Released 16 September 1999 (1999-09-16)
Recorded 1998–1999
Genre Pop Rock
Length 62:36
Label Gut/V2
Tom Jones chronology
The Lead and How to Swing It
(1994)
Reload
(1999)
Mr. Jones
(2002)
Singles from Reload
  1. "Burning Down the House"
    Released: September 1999
  2. "Baby, It's Cold Outside"
    Released: December 1999
  3. "Mama Told Me Not to Come"
    Released: March 2000
  4. "Sex Bomb"
    Released: May 2000
  5. "You Need Love Like I Do"
    Released: November 2000

Reload is an album by Welsh singer Tom Jones, released in 1999. After a lengthy career, and a notable absence from the music charts for several years, he resurrected his career with this album of fifteen cover versions, a new version of one of his own songs ("Looking Out My Window," 1968), and one original track ("Sexbomb") recorded as duets with current artists. To ensure that the finished product retained the sound of these artists, he also recorded the tracks in the same studios these artists used, and also used their record producers.

Reload became the highest seller of Jones' career, reaching #1 on the British charts in 1999 and again in 2000. Its biggest single was the collaboration with Mousse T, "Sexbomb", which reached #3 on the UK Singles Chart, and was later used in a 2003 episode of The Simpsons (a show Jones had guest starred on in 1992). The album has sold more than six million copies worldwide. The album was not released immediately in the US with Jones's US record company stating that many of the artists were not known outside of the UK. Jones announced plans to record additional tracks with well-known US artists to prepare the album for US release. This did not occur.

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Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Burning Down the House" (with The Cardigans)David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison3:40
2."Mama Told Me Not to Come" (with Stereophonics)Randy Newman3:02
3."Are You Gonna Go My Way" (with Robbie Williams)Lenny Kravitz, Craig Ross3:44
4."All Mine" (with The Divine Comedy)Geoff Barrow, Beth Gibbons, Adrian Utley4:12
5."Sunny Afternoon" (with Space)Ray Davies4:15
6."I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone" (with James Dean Bradfield)Stan Kesler, William E. Taylor3:09
7."Sex Bomb" (with Mousse T)Mousse T, Errol Rennalls3:50
8."You Need Love Like I Do" (with Heather Small)Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong3:24
9."Looking Out My Window" (with James Taylor Quartet)Tom Jones4:26
10."Sometimes We Cry" (with Van Morrison)Van Morrison3:59
11."Lust for Life" (with The Pretenders)Iggy Pop, David Bowie6:13
12."Little Green Bag" (with Barenaked Ladies)George Baker Selection4:01
13."Ain't That a Lot of Love" (with Simply Red)Willa Dean Parker, Homer Banks2:58
14."She Drives Me Crazy" (with Zucchero)Fine Young Cannibals3:11
15."Never Tear Us Apart" (with Natalie Imbruglia)INXS3:00
16."Baby, It's Cold Outside" (with Cerys Matthews)Frank Loesser3:11
17."Motherless Child" (with Portishead)Traditional4:26

A "special edition" release of the album also includes remixes of "Sexbomb" and "You Need Love Like I Do" as bonus tracks.

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/Sales
Australia (ARIA)[1] 2× Platinum 140,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[2] Platinum 50,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[3] Gold 50,000^
France (SNEP)[4] Gold 100,000*
Germany (BVMI)[5] Platinum 500,000^
Italy (FIMI)[6] 2× Platinum 200,000*
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[7] Platinum 50,000^
Sweden (GLF)[8] Platinum 80,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[9] 4× Platinum 1,200,000^

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone

References

  1. "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2000 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association.
  2. "Austrian album certifications – Tom Jones – Reload" (in German). IFPI Austria. Enter Tom Jones in the field Interpret. Enter Reload in the field Titel. Select album in the field Format. Click Suchen
  3. "Canadian album certifications – Tom Jones – Reload". Music Canada.
  4. "French album certifications – Tom Jones – Reload" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique.
  5. "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Tom Jones; 'Reload')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
  6. "Musica: Tom Jones, il nuovo singolo in radio da domani" (in Italian). Adnkronos. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
  7. "The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (Tom Jones; 'Reload')". IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien.
  8. "Guld- och Platinacertifikat − År 2000" (PDF) (in Swedish). IFPI Sweden.
  9. "British album certifications – Tom Jones – Reload". British Phonographic Industry. Enter Reload in the field Keywords. Select Title in the field Search by. Select album in the field By Format. Select Platinum in the field By Award. Click Search
Preceded by
Rhythm and Stealth by Leftfield
Play by Moby
Crush by Bon Jovi
UK number one album
9–15 October 1999
20–26 May 2000
17–23 June 2000
Succeeded by
Come on Over by Shania Twain
The Greatest Hits by Whitney Houston
7 by S Club 7
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