Billie Eilish lands UK number one with Bond theme No Time to Die
US artist also achieved the biggest first-week sales for a 007 song
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Your support makes all the difference.Billie Eilish has become the second-ever artist to have a Bond theme song at the top of the UK singles chart.
Eilish follows Sam Smith, whose song “Writing’s On the Wall” from Spectre topped the charts in 2015.
“No Time to Die“ is also the Bond song with the biggest opening week, with 90,000 equivalent sales.
Smith’s theme sold 70,000 copies in its first week, while Adele’s “Skyfall” sold 84,000.
However, the BBC noted that Adele’s track was released on a Wednesday, meaning it achieved 84,000 equivalent sales in just two days.
In its second, full week on the charts, it sold 92,400 copies.
Eilish is the youngest-ever artist to record a theme for the Bond franchise, having turned 18 in December.
She performed “No Time to Die” live for the first time at the Brit Awards in London, where she was accompanied by Hans Zimmer, Johnny Marr, and her brother Finneas O’Connell.
At the ceremony, she also accepted the award for Best International Female.
She and O’Connell recently revealed they wrote the song on their tour bus over three days. Billie Eilish lands UK number one with Bond theme No Time to Die.
Read our review of the song here.
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