Billie Eilish to release theme song for new James Bond film No Time To Die

The singer-songwriter will be the youngest artist to record a Bond theme when she releases the title track for No Time To Die this year.
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Billie Eilish has been named as the artist behind the theme for the upcoming James Bond film No Time To Die.

The news, confirmed by 007 themselves on Twitter, makes Billie the youngest act to ever write and record a Bond theme. Sam Smith, who released Writing's On The Wall for the last Bond film Spectre, was 23 years old at the time. 

UPDATE: No Time To Die is now out! Listen below: 

"It feels crazy to be a part of this in every way," Billie said. "To be able to score the theme song to a film that is part of such a legendary series is a huge honour. James Bond is the coolest film franchise ever to exist. I’m still in shock”. 

As mentioned in the tweet above, the new Bond theme was co-written by Billie's brother Finneas. The pair worked together exclusively on her chart-topping debut album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? 

Finneas added: "Writing the theme song for a Bond film is something we’ve been dreaming about doing our entire lives. There is no more iconic pairing of music and cinema than the likes of Goldfinger and Live And Let Die. We feel so so lucky to play a small role in such a legendary franchise, long live 007."

While the Bond theme is an integral part of British music and film, you may be surprised at how they've performed on the charts. Just one has topped the Official UK Chart - Sam Smith's Writing's On The Wall.

Before that, Adele's Skyfall (2012) and Duran Duran's A View To Kill (1985) were near-misses, both reaching Number 2. Look back at where every James Bond theme has charted in the UK.

No Time To Die is in theatres globally from April 2 2020.

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mildredfarts

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i was fully prepared to be switching off after less than a minute but...wow..this is actually quite good! i don't think it's worthy of #1 but top 5 is likely.

JW

jesika wonf

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etin

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problably it will be worst bond song ever

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Alfred Lock

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I'll see if it's worse than Madonna's Die Another Day

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etin

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Why do you think its bad?

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Alfred Lock

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Nothing could be worse than Die Another Day or even Another Way To Die(Duets don't work!).Such a young name for todays' streaming generation has a huge mountain to climb to pull off a good theme..(Maybe she will surprise at The Brits with it)..whatever it sounds like it could never top the vocal power of Dame Shirley Bassey or Sir Tom Jones or even the explosive drama of my favourite Live And Let Die by Wings but surely more dramatically uplifting than Sam Smith's Writing On The Wall? Just wait and see and then be the judge on here with us all.

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etin

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İ think she is more suitable for "dead bride" soundtrack

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thierry henon

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Congrats to Billie!! It will definitely be number 1 around the globe!!