Plastic Beach release

Released on 3 March 2010, Plastic Beach debuted at No. 2 on both the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200 chart, the band’s highest placing debut chart position. The album was supported by the lead single ” Stylo ” featuring Mos Def and Bobby Womack (with Bruce Willis appearing in the music video) released in January 2010 and the later singles ” On Melancholy Hill ” and ” Rhinestone Eyes “. To promote the album, the band embarked on the Escape to Plastic Beach Tour , the band’s first world tour and also their first live performances in which the touring band performed fully in view of the audience on stage with no visual obstructions. The tour, which featured many of the collaborative artists from Plastic Beach and saw the touring band wearing naval attire, was later described by Albarn as having been extremely costly to produce, with the band barely breaking even on the shows, saying “I loved doing it, but economically it was a fucking disaster.” The tour was preceded by headline performances at several international music festivals, including the Coachella and Glastonbury festivals. On 21 November 2010, while still on tour, the band released the non-album single ” Doncamatic ” featuring British singer Daley .