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 The group was described by the BBC Four program "Synth Britannia" as the key to synth-pop's future rise there. Italy's Giorgio Moroder paired up with Donna Summer in 1977 to release the electronic disco song "I Feel Love", and its programmed beats would be a major influence on the later synth-pop sound. David Bowie's Berlin Trilogy, comprising the albums "Low" (1977), ""Heroes"" (1977), and "Lodger" (1979), all featuring Brian Eno, would also be highly influential. Early guitar-based punk rock that came to prominence in the period 1976–77 was initially hostile to the "inauthentic" sound of the synthesizer, but many new