Question 1

Does Björk write her own songs?

Accepted Answer

She is credited on 110 of her 114 solo studio tracks and is the only writer on 59 of them. The four she did not write are all older songs she covered: two jazz standards, an Icelandic art song and a traditional Icelandic melody.

Question 2

Who wrote "It's Oh So Quiet"?

Accepted Answer

Bert Reisfeld and Hans Lang. It reached number 4 in the United Kingdom, and it is one of only four studio tracks she had no hand in writing.

Question 3

How many albums has she released?

Accepted Answer

Ten solo studio albums, from Debut in 1993 to Fossora in 2022. The Sugarcubes records, the two soundtracks and the live and remix albums are separate.

Question 4

Which album sold the most?

Accepted Answer

Debut, at 4,700,000 worldwide and 930,000 in the United States.

Question 5

Has she won a Grammy?

Accepted Answer

No. She has 16 nominations, nine of them for Best Alternative Music Album, which is more than any other artist has had in that category.

Question 6

Who writes the words?

Accepted Answer

She does on most of them. The Icelandic poet Sjón writes or co-writes lyrics on Homogenic, Biophilia and elsewhere, and Oddný Eir Ævarsdóttir on Biophilia.

Question 7

Which album is most her own?

Accepted Answer

Medúlla, where nine of the fourteen tracks carry only her name. Volta is the opposite, with three of ten, because Timbaland and Danja co-wrote.

Question 8

Did she act?

Accepted Answer

She starred in Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark in 2000 and won Best Actress at Cannes for it. "I've Seen It All" from that soundtrack was nominated for an Academy Award.

Question 9

What was the Sugarcubes?

Accepted Answer

The Icelandic band she fronted until 1992, which made her internationally known before she went solo. Those records are not in this catalogue.

Question 10

What is Biophilia?

Accepted Answer

Her 2011 album, released with an app for each song, a set of teaching workshops on four continents and a documentary. The music itself is credited to her almost entirely.