The opening title card announces that the moderator Chris Willman is the features editor and chief music critic for 'Variety'.
It was much speculated and anticipated that singer Billie Eilish might be launching this film's title song at the 2020 Academy Awards ceremony. This was fueled by the fact that the details of her performance at the event and the name of the song she would be singing was not revealed publicly. She did not sing the 'No Time to Die' song at the Oscars but sang 'Yesterday' by 'The Beatles' during the 'In Memoriam' segment. The original director of 'No Time to Die' (2020) was Danny Boyle. After he left the production over creative differences, the name of the movie he made was 'The Beatles' related feature film 'Yesterday' (2019).
In January 2020, it was announced that Billie Eilish would write and perform the film's theme song. Being just 18 at the time, this makes her the youngest artist in the history of the Bond series to do so.
The film's music composer Hans Zimmer served as executive music producer on EON Productions' previous picture 'The Rhythm Section' (2020) which was scored by his friend and colleague Steve Mazzaro who is the score producer of 'No Time to Die' (2021).
'No Time to Die' (2021)'s title song sung by Billie Eilish broke the record for the biggest ever opening week for a James Bond theme/title song in the UK. The track sold about 90,000 copies in its first week of seven days in release and also had 10.6 million streams in the same, racing to the UK No. #1 spot on the pop charts. Previously, Sam Smith's theme song from 'Spectre' (2015), entitled 'Writing's On The Wall', previously held the record, selling almost 70,000 copies when it debuted in late 2015, also hitting the UK No. #1 spot on the music single charts. Adele's title song for 'Skyfall' (2012) sold about 84,000 copies when it debuted in late 2012 which at the time made it to the UK No. #2 rank on the UK top of the pops chart.