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 (£10*)
Double Vinyl 626 1661

US
US CD "Standard" 5099962754729 (£8)
US CD+DVD "Experience" 5099962754828
Double Vinyl unknown

Asian Countries
Japanese CD "Standard" TOCP-66951
Japanese CD+DVD "Experience"
TOCP-66950
Korean CD EKPD-1547
Taiwanese CD I0477
Taiwanese CD+DVD "Experience" 5099962617123

Other Countries & Formats
Digital Download
Digital Download (Re-issue)
iTunes LP "Deluxe"

*Approx. value
 

 

Record labels: UK: Parlophone/EMI Records US: Virgin Records Japan: EMI Music Japan Korea: EMI Records Korea Taiwan: EMI Records Taiwan

"Superfast Jellyfish" was a radio-only
single from Plastic Beach.

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 digital album booklet and wallpapers.

"Standard" and "Experience" editions were also sold with a T-shirt.

Re-issued digital download includes "Doncamatic" as a bonus track.

Note: For more precise details between different editions, please see Plastic Beach bonus contents chart.
 

* Videos from the Roundhouse gig (30 Apr 2010): "Kids With Guns", "Last Living Souls", "O Green World" and "Rhinestone Eyes".
 

Liner notes
Credits inside the album booklet.

• The album started off in 2007 as Carousel which was a cancelled follow-up project to Monkey: Journey To The West. Damon Albarn wrote around 70 songs for the project.
• Fictionally, Plastic Beach is a floating South Pacific island consisting of debris of humanity. Damon got the idea of the concept by looking at the beach rubbish near his Devon home.
• 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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