Reload (Tom Jones album)

Reload
Studio album by Tom Jones
Released	16 September 1999
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
"Burning Down the House" Released: September 1999 "Baby, It's Cold Outside" Released: December 1999 "Mama Told Me Not to Come" Released: March 2000 "Sex Bomb" Released: May 2000 "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.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Burning Down the House" (with The Cardigans)	David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison	3:40
2.	"Mama Told Me Not to Come" (with Stereophonics)	Randy Newman	3:02
3.	"Are You Gonna Go My Way" (with Robbie Williams)	Lenny Kravitz, Craig Ross	3:44
4.	"All Mine" (with The Divine Comedy)	Geoff Barrow, Beth Gibbons, Adrian Utley	4:12
5.	"Sunny Afternoon" (with Space)	Ray Davies	4:15
6.	"I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone" (with James Dean Bradfield)	Stan Kesler, William E. Taylor	3:09
7.	"Sex Bomb" (with Mousse T)	Mousse T, Errol Rennalls	3:50
8.	"You Need Love Like I Do" (with Heather Small)	Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong	3:24
9.	"Looking Out My Window" (with James Taylor Quartet)	Tom Jones	4:26
10.	"Sometimes We Cry" (with Van Morrison)	Van Morrison	3:59
11.	"Lust for Life" (with The Pretenders)	Iggy Pop, David Bowie	6:13
12.	"Little Green Bag" (with Barenaked Ladies)	George Baker Selection	4:01
13.	"Ain't That a Lot of Love" (with Simply Red)	Willa Dean Parker, Homer Banks	2:58
14.	"She Drives Me Crazy" (with Zucchero)	Fine Young Cannibals	3:11
15.	"Never Tear Us Apart" (with Natalie Imbruglia)	INXS	3:00
16.	"Baby, It's Cold Outside" (with Cerys Matthews)	Frank Loesser	3:11
17.	"Motherless Child" (with Portishead)	Traditional	4:26

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	Sales/shipments
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 ^xunspecified figures based on certification alone

External links

• Official Website

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')". 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