Emergency On Planet Earth

This, their debut album was a huge hit in the UK and put the band firmly on the jazz-funk music map when it was released in June 1993 and went straight to number one in the UK album charts. After spending three weeks in the top spot, it spent ten weeks in the top 10 before slowly drifting down the chart.

UK release

• When You Gonna Learn - didgeridoo
• Too Young To Die
• Hooked Up
• If I Like It I Do It
• Music Of The Mind
• Emergency On Planet Earth
• Whatever It Is I Just Can't Stop
• Blow Your Mind
• Revolution 1993
• Didgin' Out
• Catalogue Number: 474069 2
• Label: Sony Music
• Year: 1993
• Format: CD
• Packaging: jewel case
• Release date: 14 June 1993
• Highest Chart Position: 1 (21 June 1993)
• Chart Positions: 1, 1, 1, 2, 6, 10, 8, 8, 8, 9, 11, 15, 20, 25, 25, 32, 36, 46, 59, 65, 64, 61, 47, 61, 63, 72, 44, 46, 28, 37, 43, 71

Emergency On Planet Earth was awarded the following British Phonographic Industry (BPI) Certified Awards - Silver (200,000 sales), and Gold (400,000 sales) on 1 July 1993. A Platinum award for 600,000 sales was awarded on 1 January 1994.

Japanese release

This album has been issued on the same catalogue number with two different versions of the artwork. The first has the multicolour booklet and rear liner, with the OBI strip image printed to match the design. The reissue is the standard white cover with the first issue OBI strip.

• When You Gonna Learn - didgeridoo
• Too Young To Die
• Hooked Up
• If I Like It I Do It
• Music Of The Mind
• Emergency On Planet Earth
• Whatever It Is I Just Can't Stop
• Blow Your Mind
• Revolution 1993
• Didgin' Out
• Catalogue Number: ESCA 5775
• Label: Epic/Sony
• Year: 1993
• Format: CD
• Packaging: jewel case
• Release date: 14 June 1993
• Highest Chart Position: 1 (21 June 1993)

US release

• When You Gonna Learn - didgeridoo
• Too Young To Die
• Hooked Up
• If I Like It I Do It
• Music Of The Mind
• Emergency On Planet Earth
• Whatever It Is I Just Can't Stop
• Blow Your Mind
• Revolution 1993
• Didgin' Out
• Catalogue Number: 53825
• Label: Sony/Work
• Year: 1993
• Format: CD
• Packaging: jewel case
• Release date: 10 August 1993

Argentinian Promo release

This sampler CD was distributed by Sony/Columbia in Argentina prior to the release of Emergency On Planet Earth.

• When You Gonna Learn - digeridoo (3.47)
• Too Young To Die - 6.04
• If I Like It, I Do It - 4.35
• Emergency On Planet Earth (4.04)
• Catalogue Number: 2-000019
• Label: Sony Music/Columbia
• Year: 1993
• Format: CD

UK Promo Cassette release

This promo cassette contains the only occurrence of the edited version of "Revolution 1993". Probably one of the very first Jamiroquai release with Sony.

• When You Gonna Learn - didgeridoo (3.49)
• Blow Your Mind - Part 2 (3.51)
• Too Yonug To Die - 7" Radio Edit (3.23)
• Revolution 1993 - Excerpt (3.25)
• Catalogue Number: none
• Label: Sony Soho Square
• Year: 1993
• Format: cassette
• Packaging: jewel case

US Promo Cassette release

• When You Gonna Learn - didgeridoo
• Too Young To Die
• Hooked Up
• If I Like It I Do It
• Music Of The Mind
• Emergency On Planet Earth
• Whatever It Is I Just Can't Stop
• Blow Your Mind
• Revolution 1993
• Didgin' Out
• Catalogue Number: none
• Label: Columbia Records
• Year: 1993
• Format: cassette
• Packaging: jewel case

UK Vinyl release

• Side A
• When You Gonna Learn - didgeridoo
• Too Young To Die
• Side B
• Hooked Up
• If I Like It I Do It
• Music Of The Mind
• Emergency On Planet Earth
• Whatever It Is I Just Can't Stop
• Blow Your Mind
• Revolution 1993
• Didgin' Out
• Catalogue Number: 474069 1
• Label: Sony Music
• Year: 1993
• Format: vinyl
• Release date: 14 June 1993

Nice packaging with nice centerfold of the Jamiroquai painting. Includes extended and unedited vinyl-only versions of When You Gonna Learn?, Too Young To Die and If I Like It, I Do It. The labels are cropped out from various parts of the painting.

UK MiniDisc release

• When You Gonna Learn - didgeridoo (3.48)
• Too Young To Die (6.03)
• Hooked Up (4.35)
• If I Like It I Do It (4.52)
• Music Of The Mind (6.22)
• Emergency On Planet Earth (4.04)
• Whatever It Is I Just Can't Stop (4.07)
• Blow Your Mind (8.32)
• Revolution 1993 (10:16)
• Didgin' Out (2.37)
• Catalogue Number: 474069 8
• Label: Sony Music
• Year: 1993
• Format: minidisc
• Packaging: minidisc case