Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk has embarked on eleven concert tours and has performed at various broadcast shows and live events. After leaving her band, The Sugarcubes, Björk promoted her first album Debut (1993) through performances at various shows and award ceremonies. While starting her Debut tour, Björk served as an opening act for U2 during their Zoo TV Tour stop at the Wembley Stadium in London. Björk performed a cover of The Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" with PJ Harvey at the 1994 Brit Awards. She also performed her single "Big Time Sensuality" at the inaugural MTV Europe Music Awards in Munich, while accompanied by Fluke. After the end of the tour, Björk curated her own MTV Unplugged special. Björk premiered her single "Army of Me" with a performance alongside Skunk Anansie at Top of the Pops. To promote its parent album, Post (1995), Björk started the eponymous concert tour, which saw her performing in different festivals and arenas throughout the globe.
In 1997, the release of Homogenic was accompanied by a short promotional stint in clubs with Mark Bell before starting a worldwide tour. The tour was extended to 1998 after plans for a North American leg with Radiohead were canceled due to staging and production difficulties. During the promotion of the album, she also performed "Bachelorette" at the 1997 MTV Europe Music Awards and during an appearance at Saturday Night Live. After receiving a Best Original Song nomination for "I've Seen It All", Björk performed the song at the 73rd Academy Awards, while dressed in her swan dress. To promote her fourth album Vespertine (2001), Björk embarked on a worldwide tour of opera houses and theaters, backed by a 54-piece orchestra. The following year, Björk became the first female artist to headline the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. In 2003, the singer performed at several European festivals and North American arenas with her Greatest Hits tour. While there was no tour performances for the singer’s fifth studio album, Medúlla (2004), Björk performed "Oceania" at the 2004 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, for which the song was commissioned, while in 2005, the singer performed at the Live 8 concert in Chiba, Japan.
Björk did not tour again until The Volta tour in 2007, supporting her sixth studio album. The tour lasted two years, during which she returned to perform in Oceania and South America after more than 10 years. She once again was the headliner of major international music festivals, including Coachella, Glastonbury Festival, Big Day Out and Roskilde Festival. The tour faced many controversies due to Björk's support of Tibetan independence movement, Kosovo declaration of independence and Faroese independence movement during several performances of "Declare Independence". From 2011 until 2013, Björk embarked on her Biophilia tour, a multimedia project which featured her seventh studio album and a series of residencies and workshops that used the eponymous app to teach children about science and musicology. The tour was documented by the 2013 documentary When Björk Met Attenborough and the 2014 concert film Björk: Biophilia Live, and featured her first performance in Africa, but was hindered by a series of vocal cords issues, for which the singer underwent surgery. Similar problems caused the cancellation of the last shows of her following tour, the Vulnicura tour, which supported her 2015 eighth studio album. Following the schedule of her Björk Digital exhibition, the tour resumed with acoustic shows and festival performances in 2016 and 2017.
The singer supported the release of her 2017 album Utopia with a series of shows throughout Europe the following summer. In 2019, Björk announced Cornucopia, said to be her "most elaborate stage concert yet". It debuted as a residency show at The Shed arts center in New York before traveling worldwide. In 2021, Björk embarked on her eleventh concert tour, called Björk Orkestral, which setlist consisted of orchestral arrangements of songs from her career so far.
Concert tours Title Dates Associated album(s) Continent(s) Shows Live release(s) Debut tour – 31 July 1994Debut EuropeNorth AmericaOceaniaAsia50Vessel Post tour – 27 February 1997Post EuropeNorth AmericaAsiaOceaniaSouth America113Live at Shepherds Bush EmpirePost Live Homogenic tour – 6 January 1999Homogenic North AmericaEuropeAsiaSouth America58Live in CambridgeHomogenic Live Vespertine world tour – 21 December 2001Vespertine North AmericaEuropeAsia36Live at Royal Opera HouseMinusculeVespertine Live Greatest Hits tour – 3 September 2003Greatest Hits EuropeAsiaNorth America28 The Volta tour – 26 August 2008Volta EuropeNorth AmericaSouth AmericaOceaniaAsia76Voltaïc Biophilia tour – 7 September 2013Biophilia EuropeNorth AmericaSouth AmericaAfricaAsia70When Björk Met AttenboroughBjörk: Biophilia Live Vulnicura tour – 3 November 2017Vulnicura North AmericaEuropeAsia27Vulnicura Live Utopia tour – 30 July 2018Utopia Europe11 Cornucopia – 5 December 2023UtopiaFossora North AmericaEuropeOceaniaAsia45Cornucopia Björk Orkestral – 23 April 2023Various EuropeNorth AmericaSouth AmericaAsia20Björk Orkestral with the Hamrahlíð Choir
One-off concerts DateEventVenueLocationPerformed song(s) 9 December 1999Concerts with Brodsky QuartetUnion ChapelLondon, England 11 December 1999 27 April 2002Coachella FestivalEmpire Polo ClubIndio, United States 2 July 2005Live 8Makuhari MesseChiba, Japan
Ceremonies DateEventVenueLocationPerformed song(s) 5 December 19931993 Smash Hits Poll Winners PartyDocklands ArenaLondon, England"Big Time Sensuality" (with Fluke)14 February 19941994 BRIT AwardsAlexandra Palace"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (with PJ Harvey)24 November 19941994 MTV Europe Music AwardsBrandenburg GateBerlin, Germany"Big Time Sensuality" (with Fluke)3 December 19951995 Smash Hits Poll Winners PartyDocklands ArenaLondon, England"It's Oh So Quiet"4 March 19971997 Nordic Council Music PrizeOslo City HallOslo, Norway 6 November 19971997 MTV Europe Music AwardsThe AhoyRotterdam, Netherlands"Bachelorette"25 March 200173rd Academy AwardsShrine AuditoriumLos Angeles, United States"I've Seen It All"9 March 20022002 Victoires de la MusiqueLe ZénithParis, France"It's Not Up to You"15 October 20032003 Fashion RocksRoyal Albert HallLondon, England"Bachelorette"13 August 20042004 Summer Olympics opening ceremonyOlympic Stadium of AthensAthens, Greece"Oceania"28 February 20262026 BRIT AwardsCo-op LiveManchester, England"Berghain" (with Rosalía and Heritage Orchestra)
Television shows DateShowNetworkCountryPerformed song(s) 2 July 1993Later... with Jools HollandBBC TwoEngland"Aeroplane" (with D'Influence)13 August 1993The BeatITV 9 September 1993Top of the PopsBBC One"Venus as a Boy"29 September 1993UNRK1Norway13 October 1993Planeta RockTVESpain10 November 1993Late Night with Conan O'BrienNBCUnited States"Human Behaviour"15 November 1993Dance EnergyBBC TwoEngland"Big Time Sensuality" (with Fluke)21 November 1993120 MinutesMTVUnited States22 November 1993MTV's Most WantedMTV EuropeEngland2 December 1993Top of the PopsBBC One"Big Time Sensuality"16 February 1994Nulle part ailleursCanal+France"Violently Happy"8 March 1994Le Cercle de minuitFrance 217 March 1994Top of the PopsBBC OneEngland"Violently Happy"15 April 1994The Tonight Show with Jay LenoNBCUnited States"Big Time Sensuality"7 June 1994FestivalbarItalia 1Italy17 June 1994MTV's Most WantedMTV EuropeEngland7 November 1994MTV Unplugged20 April 1995Top of the PopsBBC One"Army of Me" 22 April 1995The White RoomChannel 44 May 1995Top of the PopsBBC One"Army of Me" (with Skunk Anansie)13 June 1995FestivalbarItalia 1Italy"Army of Me"17 June 1995Later... with Jools HollandBBC TwoEngland16 August 1995Late Show with David LettermanCBSUnited States"Hyperballad"17 August 1995Top of the PopsBBC OneEngland"Isobel"24 August 199527 October 1995Zona francaTVESpain"I Miss You"2 November 1995The Tonight Show with Jay LenoNBCUnited States"It's Oh So Quiet"23 November 1995Top of the PopsBBC OneEngland24 November 1995Children in Need14 December 1995Top of the Pops13 January 1996Jack Dee's Saturday NightChannel 418 February 1996TaratataFrance 2France19 April 1996TFI FridayChannel 4England"I Miss You"1 November 1996"Possibly Maybe"8 November 1996Top of the PopsBBC One14 March 1997Red Nose Day"Short Term Affair" (with Tony Ferrino)19 September 1997TFI FridayChannel 4"Jóga"3 October 1997Top of the PopsBBC One18 October 1997Saturday Night LiveNBCUnited States"Bachelorette"9 November 1997The South Bank ShowITVEngland"Unravel"29 November 1997Later... with Jools HollandBBC Two11 February 1998Nulle part ailleursCanal+France14 February 1998MTV Live 'n' LoudMTV EuropeEngland22 May 1998The Tonight Show with Jay LenoNBCUnited States"Bachelorette"20 June 1998Hit MachineM6France16 October 1998Later... with Jools HollandBBC TwoEngland"So Broken"5 December 1998CD:UKITV"Alarm Call"31 December 19992000 TodayVariousIceland"The Anchor Song"17 August 2001Top of the PopsBBC OneEngland4 September 2001Late Show with David LettermanCBSUnited States"Pagan Poetry"17 October 2001ReverbHBO19 October 2001The Tonight Show with Jay LenoNBC"Cocoon"14 January 2002NEWS23JNNJapan26 February 2002Johnny Vaughan TonightBBC OneEngland"Cocoon"6 March 2002Die Harald Schmidt ShowSat.1Germany28 May 2002Music Planet 2NiteArte3 November 2002Inside BjörkChannel 4England8 October 2004Friday Night with Jonathan RossBBC One"Who Is It"25 – 29 October 2004Album de la SemaineCanal+France21 April 2007Saturday Night LiveNBCUnited States8 June 2007Later... with Jools HollandBBC TwoEngland27 September 2007Late Night with Conan O'BrienNBCUnited States"Wanderlust"27 February 2011Átta RaddirRÚVIceland22 November 2011Later... with Jools HollandBBC TwoEngland31 January 2012The Colbert ReportComedy CentralUnited States"Cosmogony"22 May 2018Later... with Jools HollandBBC TwoEngland
Radio broadcasts DateShowStationCountryPerformed song(s) 2 March 2002Jonathan Ross ShowBBC Radio 2England"Cocoon"12 June 2003Gilles Peterson ShowBBC Radio 110 October 200412 April 2011Gideon Coe ShowBBC Radio 6 Music
Web performances DateEventVenueLocationPerformed song(s) 21 May 2001Vespertine world tour rehearsal webcastThe LoftNew York City, United States 16 May 2003Greatest Hits tour rehearsal webcastLoftkastalinn TheatreReykjavík, Iceland 28 June 2016Virtual reality livestreamingMiraikanTokyo, Japan"Quicksand"2 December 2022A cappella live videoFagradalsfjallReykjanes Peninsula, Iceland"Sorrowful Soil"
Guest appearances