Reload (Tom Jones album)
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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.[citation needed]
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Track listing
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 |
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| 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^ |
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External links
References
- ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2000 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association.
- ^ "Austrian album certifications – Tom Jones – Reload" (in German). IFPI Austria.
- ^ "Canadian album certifications – Tom Jones – Reload". Music Canada.
- ^ "French album certifications – Tom Jones – Reload" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique.
- ^ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Tom Jones; 'Reload')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
- ^ "Musica: Tom Jones, il nuovo singolo in radio da domani" (in Italian). Adnkronos. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
- ^ "The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards ('Reload')". IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien.
- ^ "Guld- och Platinacertifikat − År 2000" (PDF) (in Swedish). IFPI Sweden. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-17.
- ^ "British album certifications – Tom Jones – Reload". British Phonographic Industry. Select albums in the Format field. Select Platinum in the Certification field. Type Reload in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.