All the favourites to sing next James Bond theme song – including a UK pop princess

Speculation is rife astir who volition measurement into Daniel Craig’s shiny shoes and play the adjacent James Bond, with Aaron Taylor-Johnson currently the frontrunner.

With each that chatter comes rumours astir which instrumentalist volition sing the adjacent movie’s taxable tune.

Previously, megastars including Adele and Billie Eilish person lent their vocals to the 007 franchise, with Skyfall (2012) and No Time To Die (2020) already becoming favourites among enactment fans.

Sam Smith besides delivered a almighty taxable tune successful the signifier of 2015’s Writing’s On The Wall from Spectre, and adjacent Madonna has played her part, performing Die Another Day successful 2002, marking Pierce Brosnan’s last outing arsenic Bond.

It’s presently chartless who volition measurement into the signaling booth and loop retired the tune for the adjacent instalment, but that hasn’t stopped radical from getting their predictions successful early.

Who bash you deliberation volition travel successful the footsteps of Dame Shirley Bassey and Sir Paul McCartney? Here are the contenders…

Raye

Brit Award-winning vocalist Raye is Betfred’s existent favourite creator to sing the adjacent Bond theme.

Despite her vocation spanning much than 10 years, the Prada hitmaker roseate to prominence successful 2024 erstwhile her azygous Escapism gained popularity connected societal media and became her first opus to apical the UK singles chart.

In the aforesaid year, she won six Brit Awards, including British Artist of the Year, breaking the grounds for the creator to triumph the astir awards successful a azygous ceremony.

So what amended mode to headdress disconnected her meteoric emergence to fame than a way connected the latest James Bond movie? Her genre-bending benignant would adhd a unsocial flair to invited successful a caller starring man.

‘If they called me, you tin judge I would beryllium determination successful a heartbeat,’ Rayetold Metro erstwhile asked astir the anticipation of singing a opus for the film.

‘I would transportation arsenic galore songs arsenic it took to get the close 1 that they like. That would beryllium an implicit imagination travel true.’

Betfred’s Robert Ford said: ‘In the past 3 months, we’ve seen Raye’s likelihood successful this marketplace shorten from 5/1 to 8/11 odds-on favourite.

‘Raye erstwhile antecedently claimed that she’d leap astatine the accidental successful a ‘heartbeat’ if asked to bash truthful and aft her historical six Brit Award wins past year, she surely has the prima powerfulness to travel successful the footsteps of Billie Eilish, Sam Smith and Adele.’

He continued: ‘The likelihood suggest that Raye presently has a 57.9% probability of being the adjacent James Bond taxable opus creator and is successful a precise beardown presumption arsenic it stands.’

Dua Lipa

It’s been 1 hellhole of a twelvemonth for Dua Lipa, who has released smash deed singles specified arsenic Training Season and Illusion, with her 3rd workplace album, Radical Optimism, topping the charts successful the UK and crossed Europe.

She besides headlined Glastonbury, with thousands of revellers eating retired of the thenar of her manus arsenic she commanded attraction connected the Pyramid Stage.

So, it astir apt comes arsenic nary astonishment that she’s 1 of the existent favourites to sing the adjacent Bond taxable song.

Betfred placed her likelihood astatine 4/1, lone somewhat up of the adjacent popular sensation connected the list.

Gambling.com antecedently had her likelihood astatine 6/4, with the site’s amusement adept James Leyfield telling Metro: ‘Dua Lipa is among the frontrunners to beryllium the adjacent Bond Girl, and it’s thought she could supply a two-for-one woody for savvy Bond bosses.

‘Should the Glastonbury headliner be formed successful the movie, she will no uncertainty beryllium a shoo-in to besides execute the taxable tune.’

This surely wouldn’t beryllium the archetypal clip the Grammy victor has played a cardinal relation successful a large Hollywood production.

The Don’t Start Now hitmaker nabbed tiny roles successful spy caper Argylle, arsenic good arsenic successful Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, the soundtrack of the second featuring her bop Dance The Night.

Chappell Roan

Chappell Roan roseate to fame astatine grounds velocity arsenic her singles took societal media by storm.

As good arsenic her catchy popular ditties and bold looks, fans person fallen successful emotion with the singer, existent sanction Kayleigh Rose Amstutz, for her no-nonsense cognition and honest attack to fame.

So overmuch truthful that erstwhile Bond prima Craig praised the prima for having the ‘guts’ to propulsion backmost against toxic instrumentality culture.

While her vocation began successful 2013, it wasn’t until the vocalist released her debut medium The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess successful 2023 that she truly started to summation traction.

The grounds contained singles Pink Pony Club, Good Luck Babe, and Hot To Go!, and received a Grammy Award information for medium of the year.

She has done everything from releasing state albums to heartfelt ballads and smash deed nine songs, truthful the vocalist surely has the scope and endowment to create a Bond hit.

Her likelihood are 5/1.

Lana Del Rey

Lana Del Rey is different contender to sing the adjacent Bond taxable with likelihood of 6/1.

The vocalist revealed past twelvemonth that she had actually written 1 of her past songs for a Bond movie – and had it rejected.

Her ‘dark’ and ‘broody’ vocal talents person already been praised by experts for the gig, with Lana making it wide she’d emotion to beryllium progressive successful Bond somehow.

‘I mean, however has that not happened?’ she said previously.

She continued: ‘One day, maybe…But I’m going to proceed to bash my small Nancy Sinatra happening each present and past and conscionable unreal it’s the rubric track.’

The vocalist performed portion of her opus 24, which was released successful her 2015 album, Honeymoon.

If you privation to perceive that song, you tin right here.

As 24 was released successful 2015, it seems the tune was written for the 2015 Bond movie Spectre, which featured Sam Smith’s opus Writing’s On the Wall.

Maybe the latest movie is erstwhile the award-winning songstress volition get her accidental to radiance connected the large screen.

Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga? Singing the adjacent James Bond taxable song? Surely it conscionable makes sense.

The Bad Romance hitmaker is surely nary alien erstwhile it comes to combining her 2 worlds of acting and singing.

In 2018, she starred other Bradley Cooper successful the philharmonic romanticist play A Star is Born. The movie earned galore prestigious accolades, with Shallow winning champion archetypal opus astatine the 76th Golden Globe Awards.

More recently, Gaga joined Joaquin Phoenix successful Joker: Folie à Deux, playing Harley ‘Lee’ Quinzel.

In conjunction with the blockbuster, she released a covers album. This features her renditions of timeless classics, specified arsenic Judy Garland’s Get Happy, proving (well, not that we needed immoderate convincing) that she’s got the soulful pipes required to sing thing arsenic large arsenic a Bond theme.

With a marque caller medium titled Mayhem connected the horizon, it could beryllium a singular twelvemonth for the popular icon.

Her likelihood are 10/1.

Taylor Swift

With her phenomenally palmy Eras Tour ending past year, what amended mode for Taylor Swift to capable her clip than by effortlessly penning a Bond taxable song?

The planetary prima has plentifulness of acquisition erstwhile it comes to films, from the Hannah Montana movie to Valentine’s Day to Cats.

Her likelihood are presently 12/1, lone somewhat aft Gaga.

BetIdeas.com spokesperson Lee Astley antecedently said that Taylor is surely not to beryllium taken retired of the running.

‘Taylor Swift has been a unit to beryllium reckoned with implicit the past twelvemonth oregon truthful and her seven-award haul astatine the VMAs this twelvemonth has her arsenic a brand-new introduction successful the marketplace to sing the adjacent Bond taxable song.’

Lee continued to praise Taylor’s ‘dulcet tones’, which would acceptable perfectly connected a Bond soundtrack.

Who other could sing the adjacent James Bond taxable tune?

Several immense artists are besides among Betfred’s database of singers that could sing the adjacent Bond song.

With likelihood astatine 16/1, Florence And The Machine, Muse, and Lewis Capaldi.

Bookies deliberation Billie Eilish could instrumentality to the franchise for a 2nd clip with likelihood astatine 20/1, portion others deliberation Adele andSam Smith could besides merchandise different Bond ditty.

Others connected the database see Beyonce, Harry Styles, Ed Sheeran, and SZA.

Who bash you privation to sing the adjacent James Bond theme?

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