# Reload (Tom Jones album)

Reload is the 34th album by Tom Jones, released in 1999. It contains 15 duets with a range of artists including Van Morrison, Cerys Matthews, Stereophonics, Robbie Williams, and Portishead, recorded with their usual record producers and in their usual studios. The tracks are mainly cover versions, with a new version of one of Jones' own songs, "Looking Out My Window" (1968), and one original track, "Sex Bomb".
Reload became the highest seller of Jones's career, reaching number one on the UK Albums Chart in 1999 and again in 2000. Its biggest single was the collaboration with Mousse T, "Sex Bomb", which reached number 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 four million copies worldwide. The album was not released in the US; instead the compilation Reloaded: Greatest Hits was issued there in 2003 and featured highlights from Reload.

## Release

The album was released on 16 September 1999 in the UK by Gut Records and was released a little later in the US by V2 Records. Five singles were released from the album: "Burning Down the House" (September 1999), "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (December 1999), "Mama Told Me Not to Come" (March 2000), "Sex Bomb" (May 2000), and "You Need Love Like I Do" (November 2000).

## Reception

Professional ratings :
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Reload became the highest seller of Jones' career, reaching number one on the UK Albums Chart in 1999 and again in 2000. As of April 2021, it has sold nearly 1.5 million copies.

## Track listing

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

## Personnel

* Tom Jones: Vocals on all tracks
* Nina Persson: Vocals on "Burning Down the House"
* Robbie Williams: Vocals on "Are You Gonna Go My Way"
* Neil Hannon: Vocals on "All Mine"
* Heather Small: Vocals on "You Need Love Like I Do"
* Van Morrison: Vocals on "Sometimes We Cry"
* Zucchero Fornaciari: Vocals on "She Drives Me Crazy"
* Natalie Imbruglia: Vocals on "Never Tear Us Apart"
* Cerys Matthews: Vocals on "Baby, It's Cold Outside"
* Kelly Jones: Vocals and guitar on "Mama Told Me Not to Come"
* James Dean Bradfield: Vocals, guitar, and bass on "I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone"
* The Pretenders: Instrumentations, with Chrissie Hynde on vocals, on "Lust for Life"
* Simply Red: Instrumentations, with Mick Hucknall on vocals, on "Ain't That a Lot of Love"
* Portishead: Instrumentations on "Motherless Child"
* Claudia Fontaine, Sam Brown, Lynette Koyana, Maurits Carlsson, Patrik Bartosch, Per Sunding: Backing vocals
* Peter Svensson: Guitar on "Burning Down the House"
* Peter Masalkovski : Additional guitar
* Magnus Sveningsson: Bass guitar on "Burning Down the House"
* Lars-Olof Johansson: Guitar and keyboards on "Burning Down the House"
* Tore Johansson: Additional keyboards and backing vocals
* James Taylor Quartet: Instrumentations on "Looking Out My Window"
* Jens Lindgård, Petter Lindgård, Sven Andersson: Horns
* Bengt Lagerberg: Drums on "Burning Down the House"

## Certifications and sales

Certifications and sales for Reload :
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
| Australia (ARIA) | 2× Platinum | 140,000$^^$ |
| Austria (IFPI Austria) | Platinum | 50,000$^*$ |
| Belgium (BEA) | Gold | 25,000$^*$ |
| Canada (Music Canada) | Gold | 50,000$^^$ |
| Denmark | — | 15,983 |
| France (SNEP) | Gold | 100,000$^*$ |
| Germany (BVMI) | Platinum | 500,000$^^$ |
| Italy (FIMI) | 2× Platinum | 200,000$^*$ |
| Netherlands (NVPI) | Platinum | 100,000$^^$ |
| New Zealand (RMNZ) | Platinum | 15,000$^^$ |
| Spain (PROMUSICAE) | 2× Platinum | 200,000$^^$ |
| Sweden (GLF) | Platinum | 80,000$^^$ |
| Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland) | Platinum | 50,000$^^$ |
| United Kingdom (BPI) | 5× Platinum | 1,500,000$^‡$ |
| Summaries |||
| Europe (IFPI) | Platinum | 1,000,000$^*$ |
| $^*$ Sales figures based on certification alone. $^^$ Shipments figures based on certification alone. $^‡$ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |||