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"

 

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.
 

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.

• 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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