Björk released her first solo studio album, titled Debut, in 1993. A sleeper hit in United Kingdom, the record eventually hit the top three in the Official Charts Company and received platinum certifications from BPI, RIAA and ARIA. The album included the singer's debut single "Human Behaviour", which gained chart success on BillboardAlternative and Dance charts. The album was later reissued to include the third single "Play Dead", taken from the soundtrack of The Young Americans, which became her first top 20 single on BPI charts. Subsequent singles "Big Time Sensuality" and "Violently Happy" also obtained moderate chart success and recurrent rotation on MTV. Her second album, Post, was released in June 1995, and peaked at number two in the UK and was certified platinum by BPI and RIAA. The album spawned three top 10 singles in the UK, including "Army of Me", "Hyperballad" and "It's Oh So Quiet", which became her best-selling single and was certified gold by BPI. The album was followed by a companion remix album, called Telegram (1996). Björk focused on combining electronic beats with string instruments with her third album Homogenic (1997), which sold 1 million copies around Europe.
In 2000, Björk starred in Lars von Trier's feature film Dancer in the Dark, for which she also composed the companion soundtrack Selmasongs. "I've Seen It All", a promotional single from the album, received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song. Vespertine, the singer's fourth studio album, was released in 2001 and was certified Gold in the UK. The following year, Björk released her Greatest Hits compilation, a companion box-set, Family Tree, and a series of live albums, collected in the Live Box box set. In 2004, Björk released her fifth studio album, titled Medúlla, composed almost entirely using human voices and sounds. Its first promotional single, "Oceania", was commissioned by the International Olympic Committee for the 2004 Summer Olympics and debuted at the 2004 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in Athens. The next year, Björk starred in and composed the soundtrack for Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9. Björk released her sixth studio album, Volta, in 2007. The album was her first to reach the top 10 on the Billboard 200 chart, while its first single "Earth Intruders" is Björk highest charting single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The 2009 release Voltaïc, is a companion box-set consisting of live and remix recordings. Björk's seventh studio album Biophilia (2011), was a multimedia project encompassing various apps for each song, a series of educational workshops in four continents, a worldwide tour and a documentary. After releasing several remixes as a part of "The Crystalline Series" and the "Biophilia Remix Series", Björk released a remix album titled Bastards in 2012. After the end of the tour, the singer released her sixth live album, Björk: Biophilia Live.
Coinciding with a MoMaretrospective on her career, Björk released her eighth studio album, Vulnicura in 2015. The album was followed by the "Vulnicura Remix Series", an acoustic album called Vulnicura Strings, a live album, Vulnicura Live, and an immersive exhibition, Björk Digital, which culminated in the release of a virtual reality video album, Vulnicura VR. Björk's subsequent ninth and tenth studio albums, Utopia and Fossora, were released in 2017 and 2022 respectively. Both were promoted through remixes and a theatrical concert tour, Cornucopia. In 2025, the tour was released as a concert film, and as a live and video album.
A collection of remixes of "Army of Me". Björk selected twenty remixes from fans who put their version on her website. All proceeds went to UNICEF in response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. As of January 2006, the album had raised around £250,000.[52][53]
The album features remixes from Biophilia previously released on The Crystalline Series and Biophilia Remix Series. The songs were remastered by Mandy Parnell.[56]
A live album recorded at Olympic Studios in London in 2007. A CD/DVD version includes also two live performances recorded during the Volta tour in Paris and Reykjavík. Both were also included in Voltaïc.
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The last Biophilia tour show with "in-the-round" format, performed at the Alexandra Palace in London, was directed and edited by Peter Strickland and Nick Fenton. It was released as a concert film, debuting at 2014 Tribeca Film Festival and then receiving a series of screening around the world. The album also features bonus footage recorded at the Miraikan in Tokyo.
Box set released concurrently with Greatest Hits. It features 5 Mini CDs with different releases, including works with the Elgar Sisters, Kukl and the Sugarcubes, B-sides and demo versions, live unreleased performances with the Brodsky Quartet, and a CD titled Greatest Hits as Chosen by Björk, which features a different track listing from the former release.[70]
It includes the live albums Debut Live, Post Live, Homogenic Live and Vespertine Live, along with a DVD with various TV and live performances, and a booklet featuring an interview between Björk and Ásmundur Jónsson. The four CDs were later released separately.[71]
A limited-release box set which included the then-5 studio albums and 2 soundtrack albums released in DualDisc format. On the CD sides, it includes the original albums, while the DVD sides contain each album remastered in Dolby Digital and DTS 96/24 5.1 surround sound. The corresponding music videos are also featured on the discs and are in PCM 2.0, Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1.[72][73]
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This box-set includes various Volta-related materials: a live album recorded at Olympic Studios (Songs from the Volta Tour); a DVD (The Volta Tour live in Paris and Reykjavík) with two different performances: a show in Paris during the Volta tour and an acoustic showcase which took place after the end of the tour in Reykjavík; a DVD with the music videos of the singles released from Volta and a CD with remixes of the songs. The live CD and DVD were issued as standalone albums.[61][74]
All digital sales proceeds were donated to the National Geographic Society Oceans Initiatives, which helps create international marine protected areas. An expanded Edition was released in 2023 as part of Record Store Day.
It features Fever Ray's remix of "Features Creatures", The Knife's remix of "Features Creatures" and Björk's remix of Fever Ray's song "This Country Makes It Hard to Fuck".
A limited edition remix series in 4 parts. They include remixes by Omar Souleyman and Matthew Herbert. Some of the remixes were later compiled on Bastards.
In 1977, Björk released an eponymous album under her name Björk Guðmundsdóttir. It includes several cover songs. It is considered juvenilia and it is not included in her official discography.[b] It is reported to have sold 10,000 copies in Iceland and to have been certified Platinum.
A sound installation developed in collaboration with Microsoft, audio design firm Listen and architecture office firm Atelier Ace, designed for the lobby of the Sister City Hotel in New York City, United States. The evolving music composition elaborated 17 years of choral recording and used an artificial intelligence model that responds to real-time weather data.
A podcast hosted by Björk in conversation with philosopher and writer Oddný Eir and musicologist Ásmundur Jónsson. The series provides an intimate reflection on the creation of each of Björk's albums, exploring the textures, timbres, and emotional landscapes that characterized their development.
An Immersive sound piece created alongside art director Aleph Molinari and IRCAM. The installation was showcased at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France as part of the museum's "Biodiversity: Which Culture for Which Future?" forum. It combines natural soundscapes, calls of extinct animals reconstructed through artificial intelligence, and Björk's narration to address damages to biodiversity and the collapse of ecosystems.
Top 100 peaks to December 2010: Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (pdf ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 31.
Fossora: "The ARIA Report: Week Commencing 10 October 2022". The ARIA Report. No. 1701. Australian Recording Industry Association. 10 October 2022. p. 6.
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(over 8,000 units) "Fjölmiðlun og menning – 1999". Hagstofa Íslands (in Icelandic). January 1999. p. 103. ISSN1562-403X. Retrieved 20 October 2022 – via Timarit.is.
(over 7,000) "Enn á uppleið í Evrópu". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). December 1995. p. 4. ISSN1021-7266. Archived from the original on 17 May 2021. Retrieved 17 May 2021 – via Timarit.is. Hér á landi hafa verðlaunin einnig orðið til þess að auka áhuga á Björk, því Post, sem selst hefur í rúmum 7.000 eintökum er víða uppseld sem stendur.
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^"AWARDS 2001". International Federation of the Phonographic Industry swisscharts.com at Hung Medien. Archived from the original on 21 February 2009. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
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