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Covers for different
versions
Released: 8 March 2010

All release dates
Highest UK Chart Position:
2

Chart History |
Intl Chart
Positions |
Sales

Formats:
UK
CD
"Standard"
Cat. No.
626 1662
CD+DVD
"Experience"
626 1672
US
US CD
"Standard"
5099962754729
US CD+DVD
"Experience"
5099962754828
Asian
Countries
Japanese
CD "Standard"
TOCP-66951
Japanese CD+DVD
"Experience"
TOCP-66950
Korean
CD EKPD-1547
Other Countries &
Formats
Digital
Download
iTunes LP "Deluxe"
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Record labels:
UK: Parlophone/EMI Records
US: Virgin Records
Japan: Toshiba/EMI Records Japan
Korea: EMI Records Korea |

"Superfast Jellyfish" was originally
scheduled to be the second single
from
Plastic Beach.
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Tracklist:
01.
Orchestral Intro
02. Welcome To
The World Of
The
Plastic Beach
03. White Flag
04. Rhinestone
Eyes
05. Stylo
06. Superfast
Jellyfish
07. Empire Ants
08. Glitter Freeze
09. Some Kind Of
Nature
10. On Melancholy
Hill
11. Broken
12. Sweepstakes
13. Plastic Beach
14. To Binge
15. Cloud Of
Unknowing
16. Pirate Jet |
Bonus DVD contains:
 The Making Of
Plastic Beach documentary
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Extra track in the Japanese version: "Pirate's
Progress". Also contains stickers and a poster.

"Experience" edition contains access to the exclusive
web content including wallpapers, screensavers,
live stream* and Escape To Plastic
Beach game. The access will expire in March 2012.

iTunes LP "Deluxe" edition contains two extra tracks: "Pirate's Progress"
and "Three Hearts, Seven Seas, Twelve Moons",
plus storybook, videos, Fish Tank game and
other extra stuff. Also contains access to
wallpapers, screensavers and live stream*.
The pre-orders of this edition included a free
download of "Stylo".

"Standard" edition comes with a web link to the album
booklet and wallpapers.

"Standard" and "Experience" editions are also sold
with a T-shirt.
Note: For more
precise details between different editions, please see
Plastic Beach bonus
contents chart.
* Videos from the Roundhouse gig (30 Apr): "Kids With Guns", "Last Living Souls", "O Green
World" and "Rhinestone Eyes".
Liner notes
Credits inside the album
booklet.
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Trivia:
- The album started
off as Carousel which was a cancelled follow-up
project to Monkey: Journey To The West.
- Damon Albarn got
the idea of "Plastic Beach" by looking at the
rubbish at the beach near his Devon home. Gorillaz
then recorded the album at Plastic Beach, a
floating South Pacific island consisting of debris of humanity.
- Acts who
contributed to the recording sessions, but didn't make
it to the final album included The Horrors and Mz
Streamz. Barry Gibb was also to appear on the
record, but cancelled his studio session at the
last minute.
- The first single
"Stylo" was the 15th most-searched-for phrase on
Google on the day of its leak (20 January 2010).
- Bruce Willis
appears in the promo video for "Stylo".
The video broke the record for a music video
premiered on YouTube with 900,000 hits in the first
24 hours.
- Eddy Grant accused
that "Stylo" is copied from his 1983 song "Time
Warp".
- Although not
credited, Paul Simonon is probably playing the bass
on some of the tracks. He's playing on "White Flag"
and "Sweepstakes" in The Making Of Plastic Beach
documentary.
- Total running time
(UK ver.): 56:55
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