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Eilish, Billie Eilish, releases Bond theme

- — Variety

With six Grammys, 13 platinum singles and one of the biggest debut albums in recent memory, Billie Eilish has already conquered the music world and has moved on to film.

After performing a unique take on the Beatles’ classic “Yesterday” at the Academy Awards last weekend, the singer has dropped the theme song to the forthcomin­g James Bond film “No Time to Die,” which comes out April 10. The song is the second she and brother/musical collaborat­or Finneas have dropped since the spring release of her blockbuste­r debut full-length, “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?,” after “Everything I Wanted,” which dropped late last year.

Eighteen-year-old Eilish, the youngest artist ever to write and record a Bond theme, will perform the song for the first time Tuesday at the Brit Awards in London. Two of the most recent Bond themes — Adele’s “Skyfall” and Sam Smith’s “Writing’s on the Wall” — are the only songs from the film series to win Oscars.

Later this year, Apple TV will release a documentar­y on Eilish that has been four years in the making.

Eilish swept the top Grammy categories last month, becoming the youngest (and only the second) artist in history to win the big four: album of the year and pop vocal album (for “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?”), record and song of the year (for “Bad Guy”) and new artist. (Christophe­r Cross is the only other artist ever to sweep the big four categories, in 1981.) She lost only pop solo performanc­e (to Lizzo, for “Truth Hurts”).

Eilish is set to hit the road on a world arena tour that sold out within an hour of tickets going on sale. It kicks off March 9.

 ?? KEVIN WINTER/GETTY ?? Billie Eilish performed the song “Yesterday” during the In Memoriam segment at the Academy Awards.
KEVIN WINTER/GETTY Billie Eilish performed the song “Yesterday” during the In Memoriam segment at the Academy Awards.

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