Chart history of the previous Bond theme songs:

 

YEAR TITLE ARTIST CHART PEAK WEEKS IN TOP 100

 

1963 From Russia With Love Matt Monro 20 13

1963 James Bond Theme John Barry Orchestra 13 11

1964 Goldfinger Shirley Bassey 21 9

1965 Thunderball Tom Jones 35 4

1967 You Only Live Twice Nancy Sinatra 11 19

1969 We Have All The Time in the World Louis Armstrong 3 19

1971 Diamonds are Forever Shirley Bassey 38 6

1973 Live and Let Die Paul McCartney & Wings 9 14

1975 The Man With The Golden Gun Lulu n/a 0

1977 Nobody Does It Better Carly Simon 7 12

1979 Moonraker Shirley Bassey n/a 0

1981 For Your Eyes Only Sheena Easton 8 13

1983 All Time High Rita Coolidge 75 4

1985 A View To A Kill Duran Duran 2 16

1987 The Living Daylights A-ha 5 9

1989 License To Kill Gladys Knight 6 11

1995 GoldenEye Tina Turner 10 9

1997 Tomorrow Never Dies Sheryl Crow 12 9

1999 The World Is Not Enough Garbage 11 10

2002 Die Another Day Madonna 3 17

2006 You Know My Name Chris Cornell 7 19

2008 Another Way To Die Alicia Keys & Jack White 9 14

2012 Skyfall Adele 2 32

 

How well do you think "Writing's On The Wall", performed by Sam Smith for the Spectre movie will perform?

Edited September 9, 20159 yr by Ne Plus Ultra

There's actually never been a Bond theme at number 1? :o I always assumed at least A View to a Kill & Live & Let Die got there. I'm really quite surprised by that, especially as most of the artists would've been massively popular at the time.

 

That'll be an annoying record for Sam Smith to hold <_< (which I highly doubt he won't do, there's very little out over the next few weeks)

 

 

At least it's not Ellie G, which had been rumoured.

 

 

My choices would have been Lana del Rey, Antony and the Johnsons, Conchita Wurst or The Weeknd.

Edited September 8, 20159 yr by AntoineTTe

I completely read the title as "Will Smith has the first #1 James Bond theme".

Was this even questionable? :P

 

I put #1 but not the biggest selling. I don't want to jinx it, you see.

This is such a frightening prospect.

I completely read the title as "Will Smith has the first #1 James Bond theme".

 

Me2 :lol:

Not #1 and not the biggest selling Bond theme. I just see it as a long-running T10 hit, it's being released on a Monday to charts dominated by streaming - could all change if they release to streaming early of course.

I think it will be #1, sadly (well maybe not in the very small chance that it's actually good).

Isn't this poll a bit premature given that we haven't even heard the song yet? :unsure:

It won't be #1 as it's being released on a Monday (28th)

So they ruined Adele's release by releasing on a Friday (our current release day), and now they're releasing this on Monday (the release day back then). Someone needs to inform their team what the correct release days are! :lol:

I completely read the title as "Will Smith has the first #1 James Bond theme".

 

Would be the best bond theme ever!

Having Sam Smith sing the Bond theme is much preferable than Ellie Goulding... hope it's massive for him.

It COULD still hold up in its second week and make #1 due to sale being very low currently.

It could be absolute shit though

It could be absolute shit though

 

 

That often doesn't make much difference with the general public though.

I hope this is huge for Sam, he's immensely talented and I love everything he's released so far!

So they ruined Adele's release by releasing on a Friday (our current release day), and now they're releasing this on Monday (the release day back then). Someone needs to inform their team what the correct release days are! :lol:

Well there was method to the madness with 'Skyfall'. From Wiki:

"Skyfall" was released at 0:07 BST on 5 October 2012 as part of the Global James Bond Day, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the release of Dr. No, the first James Bond film.

No idea why this one is being released on a Monday though.

Are people just going by the iTunes release date? Back when singles were released on Sundays, iTunes always used to show the release date as being the Friday before or something in regards to pre-orders so I'm guessing it's a similar situation here, because I definitely read that the Bond theme would premiere and be released on Friday 25th September.