Björk released her sixth studio album, Volta, in 2007. The next year, Björk starred in and composed the soundtrack for Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9. 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.
In 2004, Björk released her fifth studio album, titled Medúlla, composed almost entirely using human voices and sounds.
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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. Vespertine, the singer's fourth studio album, was released in 2001 and was certified Gold in the UK. " I've Seen It All", a promotional single from the album, received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song. In 2000, Björk starred in Lars von Trier's feature film Dancer in the Dark, for which she also composed the companion soundtrack Selmasongs. The album was followed by a companion remix album, called Telegram (1996).ījörk focused on combining electronic beats with string instruments with her third album Homogenic (1997), which sold 1 million copies around Europe. 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. 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. Subsequent singles " Big Time Sensuality" and " Violently Happy" also obtained moderate chart success and recurrent rotation on MTV. 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. The album included the singer's debut single " Human Behaviour", which gained chart success on Billboard Alternative and Dance charts. 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. In 1990 she released Gling-Gló alongside Tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar, a cover album of jazz standards.ījörk released her first adult solo studio album, titled Debut, in 1993, under One Little Indian Records. Thereafter, Björk ventured into bands, singing as the lead vocalist of groups like Tappi Tíkarrass, Kukl, the Elgar Sisters and, most notably, the Sugarcubes. Her first eponymous solo release, considered juvenilia, was released under Fálkinn label in 1977. The discography of Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk consists of eleven studio albums, two soundtrack albums, one compilation album, six remix albums, seven live albums, four box sets, three collaboration albums, forty-one singles, ten promotional singles and eight remixes series.ījörk started her career after a recording of her rendition of Tina Charles' 1976 song " I Love to Love" became popular on Icelandic radio. Björk performing in Paris during her Björk Orkestral show in 2022
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