According to Official Guinness Records,
Sam Smith's (UK) "Writing's on the Wall", taken from the 24th James Bond movie, Spectre (2015), became the first Bond theme to top the UK's Official Singles Chart when it debuted at No.1 on 10 October 2015. Previously, two Bond themes had peaked at No.2 in the UK: Duran Duran's "A View to a Kill" - the only US No.1 Bond theme to date - in 1985 and Adele's "Skyfall" in 2012.James Bond themes had tried - and failed - to top the UK's Official Singles Chart for almost 53 years before Sam Smith's success with "Writing's on the Wall". "The James Bond Theme", performed by the John Barry Orchestra for the first Bond film, Dr No (1962), peaked at No.13 on 6 December 1962, while the same act took "From Russia with Love", from the movie of the same name, to No.39 in 1963. Matt Monro's alternative version of "From Russia with Love" reached No.20, also in 1963.
Since 1963, the official Bond themes have been performed by: Shirley Bassey ("Goldfinger", No.21, 1964);Tom Jones ("Thunderball", No.35, 1966;Jones was the only solo British male artist to perform the Bond theme before Sam Smith);Nancy Sinatra ("You Only Live Twice", No.11, 1967);John Barry Orchestra ("On Her Majesty's Secret Service", 1969, did not chart;Louis Armstrong's "We Have All the Time in the World", also from On Her Majesty's Secret Service, didn't chart back in 1969 but peaked at No.3 on re-issue in 1994 after its use in a TV advert unrelated to James Bond);Shirley Bassey ("Diamonds Are Forever", No.38, 1972);Wings ("Live and Let Die", No.9, 1973);Lulu ("The Man with the Golden Gun", 1974, did not chart);Carly Simon ("Nobody Does it Better", from The Spy Who Loved Me, No.7, 1977);Shirley Bassey ("Moonraker", 1979, did not chart);Sheena Easton ("For Your Eyes Only", No.8, 1981);Rita Coolidge ("All Time High", from Octopussy, No.75, 1983);Duran Duran ("A View to a Kill", No.2, 1985;"A View to a Kill" was the first - and only - US No.1 Bond theme);A-ha ("The Living Daylights", No.5, 1987);Gladys Knight ("Licence to Kill", No.6, 1989);Tina Turner ("GoldenEye", No.10, 1995);Sheryl Crow ("Tomorrow Never Dies", No.12, 1997);Garbage ("The World is Not Enough", No.11, 1999);Madonna ("Die Another Day", No.3, 2002);Chris Cornell ("You Know My Name", from Casino Royale, No.7, 2006);Jack White/Alicia Keys ("Another Way to Die", from Quantum of Solace, No.9, 2008);Adele ("Skyfall", No.2, 2012);Sam Smith ("Writing's on the Wall", from Spectre, No.1, 2015). All songs are the titles of the Bond films in which they appeared, unless stated otherwise. The years shown reflect when the song first charted/peaked in the UK and is not necessarily the year of the film's release."Writing's on the Wall" was written by Sam Smith and Jimmy Napes and produced in collaboration with the British electronic duo Disclosure (Guy and Howard Lawrence).
The song debuted at the top with sales/streams of 70,000, knocking Justin Bieber's "What Do You Mean?" off the No.1 spot. It was Smith's fifth UK chart-topper, after "La La La" (Naughty Boy feat. Sam Smith, 2013), "Money on My Mind" (2014), "Stay with Me" (2014) and "Lay Me Down" (Sam Smith feat. John Legend, 2015).
For a complete list of 2015 records, please visit 2015 Guinness Records in United Kingdom.