Björk: Last News

Björk has announced that her new concert film Cornucopia will be getting a “limited release” in theatres globally. Find out the details below.The news of the upcoming release was shared today (March 20) and comes in collaboration with Mercury Studios.

Spotify has won a lawsuit over a bundling strategy it adopted which led to decreased royalty payments to songwriters.It comes after the streaming company introduced a new audiobooks bundle to its premium subscription last year.Spotify started to pay a lesser royalty rate to songwriters, and argued that the move was backed by a settlement they had reached with music publishers in 2022 through the Copyright Royalty Board, which determined streaming services are allowed to pay less on music subscriptions bundled with other services.The Mechanical Licensing Collective, a nonprofit organisation responsible for issuing mechanical licences to streaming services, filed a lawsuit against Spotify last May, claiming that it had incorrectly characterised the bundle and “unilaterally and unlawfully” began reducing the rate by as much as 50 percent without any warning, according to Rolling Stone.In a memorandum filed in court yesterday (January 29), it was ruled that Spotify was within its rights, calling the bundling rule “unambiguous.”Judge Analisa Torres added: “The only plausible application of the law supports Spotify’s position. Under the facts as alleged, audiobook streaming is a product or service that is distinct from music streaming and has more than token value.

Björk has reflected on the world of streaming and said that she thinks Spotify is “probably the worst thing that has happened to musicians”.She made the comments during a recent interview with Swedish outlet Dagens Nyheter, where she was promoting the upcoming livestream of her new concert film Cornucopia, which will debut on Apple TV+ later today (January 24).Later in the discussion, however, the artist recalled her approach towards making new music and shared how she has fortunately never felt pressured to develop a tour purely to create an income.Discussing her approach to developing new material, she said: “It is only in darkness that you can plant a new seed. For the seed to grow into a healthy and vigorous plant, you need privacy.

Björk has opened up about her creative process, revealing that she “always write[s] one song a month”.The Icelandic singer-songwriter sat down for a rare filmed interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 where she discussed her new Cornucopia concert film, out on Apple TV+ tomorrow (January 24).At one point in the conversation, Björk explained: “I always write one song a month, one every two months. It doesn’t matter what happens in my life, it’s like the full moon or it’s just like a rhythm because I’ve been doing it so long.“So I think the minute when I release an album, part of me is so relieved and so bored with the subject matter that I’m super excited to do something [the] complete opposite.

Björk has announced that a livestream of her new concert film Cornucopia will debut on Apple TV+ later this week.An hour-long version of the full-length film will air on the streaming service on Friday (January 24) at 7pm PT, or 3am on Saturday morning in the UK. The singer has also confirmed that the feature length version of the film will be coming to theatres later in the year.Ahead of the stream, the singer will also sit down for a rare interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music on Thursday (January 23) at 10am PT / 6pm UK time.“This has been a long journey with hundreds of people helping out,” she wrote on X/Twitter on Wednesday (January 22).

Björk has said she remains hopeful for the future of the planet, claiming that “biology always wins”.During a new interview with Paper, the Icelandic singer-songwriter explained that she was “very excited about 2025” despite the ongoing threats to Earth.“There have always been apocalypses,” she told the publication. “We had Noah and the flood, we’ve had plagues. There’s always been this narrative, and now I think it’s about being active and being part of the solution.“And also to have the courage to imagine a future and be in it, to be it.

Björk has spoken about how her tours have changed in recent years so she “can actually have a life”.The singer-songwriter changed the way she toured after her seventh album, Biophilia in 2011.Instead of moving from city to city, she set up a musical residency and stayed in the same place for weeks at a time.Explaining her decision to tour in this way, she said in a new interview with The Guardian: “The nuts and bolts are more flexible. Maybe being a woman, or a matriarch, or whatever, I try to make it more that people can actually have a life.“I have gently fought, since my teenage years, this macho way of how people organise both films and tours.

Apple Music has announced the line-up for its New Year’s Eve livestream events.To ring in 2025, Apple Music has amassed an eclectic performance line-up for its two New Year’s Eve livestreams – both titled Apple Music Live: NYE. The first livestream will feature Björk performing a rare DJ set, and will also include performances from Apple Music’s Tim Sweeney and London DJ Naina.

Björk has announced a new sound exhibition which is set to “recreate” the calls of extinct animals.The exhibit is set to take place at Paris’ Centre Pompidou from November 20 until December 9. Titled ‘Natural Manifesto’, it will be comprised of a 3-minute 40-second piece of audio that uses AI software to recreate the sound of extinct animals and merge them with spoken word vocals.The piece was created in collaboration with the French artist Aleph and has been supported by the sound research institute IRCAM and curated by the likes of Chloé Siganos, Delphine Le Gatt and environmentalists from France and Iceland.A post shared by Björk (@bjork)Speaking about the use of the extinct animal calls, a post on Björk’s Instagram account read: “We wanted to share their presence in an architecture representing the industrial age, far away from nature.

Björk has announced a new book that will document and chronicle her five-year ‘Cornucopia’ tour – find out more below.Cornucopia: The Book serves as a physical commemoration of the artist’s boundary-breaking ‘Cornucopia’ tour that morphed through multiple iterations over the last five years.The book is due for release on November 15 – pre-orders are available now. The book is 480 pages long and will include over 300 images from photographer Santiago Felipe.Björk wrote of Cornucopia: The Book on social media: “Before this tour, I spent a decade working with 360-degree sound and visual software in virtual reality and animation, creating ‘Biophilia’, the first app album, and later ‘Vulnicura’ as a VR album.

Björk previewed her new ‘Cornucopia’ film at Climate Week yesterday (September 27), outlining its core environmental message.The Icelandic music icon is the creative director of the film, which is currently in post-production, according to Deadline.Filmed live in Lisbon, Portugal from the European leg of her ‘Cornucopia’ world tour, the movie captures Björk’s climate crisis activism.In a statement to the publication structured in the form of a poem, the singer shared the significance of the project.“It is an emergency, in order to survive as a species we need to define our utopia. The Paris climate accord is a modern utopia impossible to imagine, but overcoming our environmental challenges is the only way we can survive.“We have to imagine something that doesn’t exist, carve intentionally into the future and demand space for hope, weave a matriarchal dome.

Björk and Philip Glass are among the musical guests that have been announced for the new album by US electronic producer Jlin.The eleven-track album is called ‘Akoma’ and will be released via Planet Mu Records on March 22. Jlin has also shared the first track from it, ‘The Precision of Infinity’, which features the legendary minimalist composer Glass.

Björk has joined forces with Rosalía to share the environmentally charged new track ‘Oral’. Check it out below.Shared today (November 21), the track marks the first time that the iconic singer has joined forces with Rosalía, and sees the two musicians work together to shed light on the cruelty and negative consequences of open-pen salmon farming in Björk’s native Iceland.Originally, ‘Oral’ was written by Björk over two decades ago, when she developed it between 1997’s ‘Homogenic’ and 2001’s ‘Vespertine’.

Björk and Rosalía have shared a video for "Oral," a new collaboration released for charity. Proceeds from the song will go towards fighting the increase in open-net salmon fishing in Björk's home country of Iceland. Ecologists believe the practice threatens the long-term future of the country’s fjords and native wildlife.

Rosalía collaboration, ‘Oral’.The Icelandic singer recently announced that she was teaming up with the Spanish superstar in October in order to fight fish farming in Iceland. All profits from the song will go towards stopping the practise.Björk had to push back the release, and has now confirmed it will drop tomorrow (November 21).

Björk has shared that she will start writing her next album in 2024, along with confirming a ‘Cornucopia’ film.The Icelandic artist was reflecting on the process of her ‘Cornucopia’ concert and theatrical production – which has toured across the world from 2019-2023 – in a recent interview, when she revealed that new music is on the horizon for next year.“Well, Cornucopia was a strange project because we did it for a year, and then Covid came for two years,” she told Rolling Stone. “And then we started it again. We’re finishing it now around Christmas.

announced she was teaming up with the Spanish superstar in October in order to fight fish farming in Iceland. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Björk has expanded upon the origins of the song.“I recorded it between [1997’s] ‘Homogenic’ and [2001’s] ‘Vespertine’,” she said. “It was just so different; it was so poppy.

Björk fan’s Halloween costume has taken the Internet by storm thanks to a rather creative spin on one of the Icelandic singer’s most iconic fashion moments.Back in 2001, Björk shocked the world with her dress, in the shape of a white swan draped around her neck. Designed by Marjan Pejoski, Björk wore the dress on the cover of her album ‘Vespertine’, and most notably at the 2001 Academy Awards red carpet, where the singer was nominated for Best Original Song (‘I’ve Seen It All’ from Dancer In The Dark).Over two decades later, that dress has now taken an entirely different direction.

Björk and Rosalia have today released a song to “help fight fish farming in Iceland” – listen to the song below.The song came with a statement from Björk who said that all the profits from the song will “help the fight against fish farming in Iceland.”Björk wrote: “People at the Fjord Seyðisfjörður have stood up and protested against fish farming starting there. We would like to donate sales of the song to help with their legal fees and hopefully it can be an exemplary case for others.”She continued: “Iceland has the biggest untouched nature in Europe and still today it has its sheep roaming free in the mountains in the summers.

Björk and Rosalía have shared their first official collaboration, a 75-second song protesting fish farming in Iceland. It exists only on YouTube and is appropriately titled — for now, at least — “help fight fish farming in iceland.” The Icelandic art-pop legend and Spanish flamenco-pop superstar sing a capella and in unison on the track, repeating a simple refrain: “Is that the right thing to do? / Is that the right thing to do? / Oh, I just don’t know / I just don’t know.” A statement shared by Björk explains that the track will be officially released later this month, with proceeds going toward the legal fees of the people on the front lines of an ongoing protest against a new fish farm in Fjord Seyðisfjörður.

Björk has released a fantastical animated music video for her new single, ‘Victimhood’.The clip, directed by Gabríela Friðriksdóttir & Pierre-Alain Giraud, premiered during the Icelandic singer’s ‘Cornucopia’ tour stop in Lisbon on Friday (September 1).Speaking about the video, Friðriksdóttir said: “I was absolutely fascinated by the song. I couldn’t forget it, I had some dreams about it too. It was a deep connection from the first time I heard it.