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V2 scoops Tom Jones deal after severing ties with Gut.

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Tom Jones may soon have two completed album packages in the bag, after finalising an exclusive deal with V2 for the world excluding North America.

V2 has secured Jones for one album firm, plus an option for a second, on an advance estimated at between 2m [pounds sterling] and 3m [pounds sterling] per album.

The deal, sealed in New York last Wednesday, will see V2 release the single Tom Jones International on October 7 in the UK. The track will be the first from a new album which is currently being completed in New York, co-produced and co-written by Wyclef Jean and Jerry Duplessis.

However, Jones also delivered an album's worth of tracks to his former label Gut Records which is also understood to be looking et the possibilities of a release.

Jones' co-manager Donna Woodward says the V2 deal follows the conclusion of Jones' deal with Gut, which included a second album after the Reload package, the biggest album of the artist's career.

Woodward says 17 tracks were delivered to Gut at the end of last year, following the Reload duets formula. She says she is aware that ...

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