Björk, the Icelandic singer, has teamed up with a British company to allow four types of digital currencies to be used to buy her forthcoming album

Björk has become the first major musical artist to encourage fans to use cryptocurrency to buy her album.

The Icelandic singer has teamed up with a British company to allow four types of digital currencies, which are outside the control of centralised banking systems, to be used to purchase her forthcoming album Utopia.

Pre-ordering the album from Björk’s website or that of the record label One Little Indian will also entitle each buyer to 100 “audiocoins”, which can then be converted to other cryptocurrencies.

The announcement was low-key with the singer not mentioning it in her own social media posting about Utopia, perhaps in acknowledgement of how widespread the digital currencies are becoming.

Their use has risen sharply since the first, bitcoin, emerged