King (song) song on BBC Radio 1. King (song) "King" is a song by British synthpop trio Years & Years from their debut studio album "Communion". It was originally released as a single on 3 February 2015. The song was released in the United Kingdom as a digital download on 1 March 2015 through Polydor Records. The song entered at the top of the UK Singles Chart with a combined sales-streaming figure of 101,000 copies, making it Years & Years' first number-one single. Internationally, "King" peaked within the top ten of the charts in Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands,
Synth-pop if there was a button on a synth or a drum machine that said 'hit single', I would have pressed it as often as anybody else would have – "but there isn't". It was all written by real human beings, and it was all played by hand". According to Simon Reynolds, in some quarters synthesizers were seen as instruments for "effete poseurs", in contrast to the phallic guitar. The association of synth-pop with an alternative sexuality was reinforced by the images projected by synth-pop stars, who were seen as gender bending, including Phil Oakey's asymmetric hair and use of eyeliner,