While details are still being finalized, preorders are being taken at for the “Plastic Beach Experience,” a CD/DVD edition that will unlock additional audiovisual content on the Web site, which relaunched February 24. Leonard says a variety of formats and models for accessing content will be featured in the campaign. sales stand at 881,000 and 1.7 million, respectively, according to the Official Charts Co. copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan, while 2005’s “Demon Days” scanned 2.2 million. Gorillaz’ self-titled 2000 debut has sold 1.9 million U.S. “But,” he adds, “it’s also about how we can draw revenue from the project as much as pure sales numbers.” Leonard says he’s confident the new album can match the band’s previous success. Thanks to Albarn’s vision, it still hangs together as an album. “We need to invest in it to get the most out of it.”įrom the album’s opener, the Snoop Dogg-enhanced swagger of “Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach,” to the Clash reunion of Mick Jones and Paul Simonon on the title track, “Plastic Beach” is a hit-stuffed, musically ambitious thrill ride through a dozen collaborations and almost as many genres. “EMI has invested heavily in this project because it’s such a big, global release for the company,” London-based Parlophone president Miles Leonard says.

But the logistics of the project - the synchronicity of Damon Albarn’s music and Jamie Hewlett’s animation - require an expensive outlay just when EMI is watching every cost. If it sells as well as the two previous Gorillaz records, it will represent another great leap forward in EMI’s creative rehabilitation, not to mention a hefty down payment on the major label’s burgeoning debt. Welcome back to the wacky world of Gorillaz and their third album, “Plastic Beach,” due March 8 in the United Kingdom on Parlophone and a day later in the United States on Virgin. grime artists like Kano and Bashy to musical legends like Lou Reed and Bobby Womack. LONDON (Billboard) - More than two years into its acquisition by Terra Firma Capital Partners, the EMI label’s biggest release of its crucial next few months comes from a cartoon band and involves its latest audiovisual concept - an environmentally conscious project set on a floating South Pacific island made of rubbish and starring everyone from upstart U.K.

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