Artist · chart history · #101 in alternative artist polls · #141 in indie & aaa artist polls
Björk
Solo artist Reykjavík Iceland
Björk is an artist from Reykjavík. Björk has 188 chart appearances on 97 radio countdowns from 25 stations on RockLists, spanning 1993–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Human Behaviour”, which appears on 55 lists with a best position of #20. The station that charted Björk most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 56 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1995.
Björk was born in Reykjavík in 1965 and started making music professionally at 11, and by the time the Sugarcubes broke up in 1992 she was already the most unmistakable voice to come out of Iceland. She had already been in Tappi Tíkarrass and KUKL before the Sugarcubes made her internationally known as their lead singer, but going solo turned her into something else entirely: a restless experimenter with a three-octave range and a way of singing that could whisper, coo, growl and erupt within a single line.
Debut, in 1993, mixed electronic beats, pop hooks and avant-garde touches, and "Human Behaviour", "Big Time Sensuality" and "Venus as a Boy" sounded like dispatches from a very different planet. Post in 1995 was even bolder: "Army of Me" hit like a sledgehammer, "Hyperballad" glowed, and the giddy "It's Oh So Quiet" joined them both in the UK top 10. Homogenic in 1997, with "Jóga" and "Hunter", pushed the electronics and the strangeness further still, and all three records won serious critical acclaim.
After that she kept moving. Vespertine in 2001, with "Hidden Place" and "Pagan Poetry", was built on glitchy, delicate beats; Medúlla in 2004 was almost entirely voices; Volta in 2007, with "Earth Intruders", leaned back toward pop; and Biophilia in 2011 came with its own iPad app. When Mark Bell, her co-producer of many years, died, she worked with the Venezuelan artist Arca on Vulnicura and Utopia, and Fossora in 2022 was the first she produced entirely on her own.
She starred in Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark in 2000, winning Best Actress at Cannes and an Oscar nomination for "I've Seen It All". She has sold more than 40 million records, won five Brit Awards and the Polar Music Prize in 2010, and collected 16 Grammy nominations, and New York's Museum of Modern Art gave her a retrospective in 2015. On rock radio's countdowns, "Human Behaviour" and "Army of Me" still sound like the future.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Björk on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Human Behaviour | 55 | #20 | – | 1993 | |
| 2 | Army of Me | 31 | #13 | – | 1995 | |
| 3 | Big Time Sensuality | 28 | #48 | – | 1994 | |
| 4 | It's Oh So Quiet | 26 | #5 | – | 1995 | |
| 5 | Hyperballad | 10 | #41 | – | 1996 | |
| 6 | Hidden Place | 3 | #60 | – | 2001 | |
| 7 | Earth Intruders | 6 | #31 | – | 2007 | |
| 8 | Joga | 5 | #284 | – | – | |
| 9 | Venus As a Boy | 4 | #561 | – | – | |
| 10 | Who Is It | 1 | #70 | – | 2004 | |
| 11 | Pagan Poetry | 2 | #620 | – | – | |
| 12 | Isobel | 3 | #765 | – | – | |
| 13 | It's In Our Hands | 1 | #75 | – | 2002 | |
| 14 | Stonemilker | 1 | #44 | – | 2015 | |
| 15 | Fungal City | 1 | #33 | – | 2022 | |
| 16 | Hunter | 1 | #321 | – | – | |
| 17 | Arisen My Senses | 1 | #56 | – | 2019 | |
| 18 | It's Oh So Quiet (Blow a Fuse) | 1 | #585 | – | – | |
| 19 | In The Musicals | 1 | #93 | – | 2000 | |
| 20 | Bachelorette | 1 | #98 | – | 1997 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Featured on
Songs by other artists credited with Björk as a guest.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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