18-year-old sensation Billie Eilishcontinues to break records across the world, with her new Bond track No Time To Die reaching #1 on the UK charts in its debut week. The American singer is the youngest artist to ever record for the Bond franchise, having penned only the second James Bond theme in six decades to crack the number one spot in the UK charts.
No Time To Die is now the most commercially successful Bond track to date and the biggest track of the year so far with 90,000 equivalent sales in its debut.
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Billie Eilish proves there’s no feat she can’t triumph, with her record-breaking Bond track dominating the charts in its first week.
The American singer told the press that her brother/co-writer/producer FINNEAS wrote the track in only 3 days, but suffered an “intense amount of writer’s block” in the process.
The duo eventually found their feet after reading the script for the film’s opening scene. “We wrote and recorded the Bond song on a tour bus in Texas,” FINNEAS said about the process.
“It was so cool to read that,” said Eilish. “It was really helpful, it really wrote the song for us, I think”.
The only other Bond track to reach #1 on the charts was Sam Smith’sWriting’s On The Wall for 2015’s Spectre. Smith’s track sold 70,000 copies in its first week, while Adele’s 2012 hit Skyfall sold 84,000.
Eilish is no stranger to shaking up the UK charts. In April 2019 at 17, Eilish became the youngest solo female act to reach #1 on the UK’s Official Albums chart, with When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
