Music of the James Bond series

Since its inception in 1962, the James Bond film series from Eon Productions has featured many musical compositions, many of which are now considered classic pieces of British film music. The best known piece is the "James Bond Theme" composed by Monty Norman. Other instrumentals, such as "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", and various songs performed by British or American artists such as Shirley Bassey's "Goldfinger", Nancy Sinatra's "You Only Live Twice", Paul McCartney's "Live and Let Die", Carly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better", Sheena Easton's "For Your Eyes Only", Duran Duran's "A View to a Kill", Gladys Knight's "Licence to Kill", and Tina Turner's "GoldenEye" also became identified with the series.

Three Bond songs have won the Academy Award for Best Original Song: "Skyfall" by Adele, "Writing's on the Wall" by Sam Smith and "No Time to Die" by Billie Eilish. Smith's "Writing's on the Wall" and Eilish's "No Time To Die" are the only Bond themes to reach number one on the UK Singles Chart, while Duran Duran's "A View to a Kill" is the only Bond song to have reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100.