Kungs

Kungs in an interview with Dance FM (2018)

Kung [Kunz] (* 17th December 1996 in Toulon , civil Valentin Brunel ) is a French deep house - DJ and music producer from Aix-en-Provence .

biography

As a child, Valentin Brunel played the djembé drum and at the age of 15 he started producing music on the PC at home. Later he began remix versions on Soundcloud publish. One version of Bob Marley's hit Jammin ' in particular received a lot of attention and quickly exceeded the million mark when viewed. He was then officially commissioned with remixing and created remixes of On My Way by Axwell Λ Ingrosso and Are You with Me by Lost Frequencies , which had over 10 million views on both SoundCloud and YouTube . He also released his own songs, including with Jasmine Thompson as a singer.

Kungs was signed to Barclay Records and in January 2016 he opened a few appearances for David Guetta on his European tour. For his first EP release, Kungs took on the soul song This Girl by the Australian band Cookin 'on 3 Burners . The song was released in February and one month later reached number one on the French download charts and high placements in numerous international sales charts. In Germany reached This Girl Place. 1

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	FR
2016	Layers	DE56 (1 week) DE	AT74 (1 week) AT	CH18 (6 weeks) CH	-	US196 (1 week) US	FR10 × 2 Double platinum (99 weeks)FR	First published: November 4th, 2016 Sales: + 200,000

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	FR
2016	This Girl Layers	DE1 × 2 Double platinum (38 weeks)DE	AT2 gold (31 weeks)AT	CH6 (45 weeks) CH	UK2 × 2 Double platinum (33 weeks)UK	US26th platinum (14 weeks)US	FR1 diamond (89 weeks)FR	First published: February 19, 2016 vs. Cookin 'on 3 Burners
	Don't You Know Layers	DE16 gold (17 weeks)DE	AT8 (16 weeks) AT	CH17 (29 weeks) CH	-	-	FR5 platinum (37 weeks)FR	First published: June 24, 2016 feat. Jamie N Commons
	I feel so bad layers	DE88 (2 weeks) DE	-	CH52 (10 weeks) CH	-	-	FR3 diamond (47 weeks)FR	First published: October 19, 2016 feat. Ephemeral
	You Remain Layers	-	-	-	-	-	FR45 (2 weeks) FR	First published: October 27, 2016 feat. ritual
2017	More mess	-	-	-	-	-	FR175 (1 week) FR	First published: August 4th 2017 feat. Olly Murs & Coely
2018	Be right here	-	-	-	-	-	FR77 (14 weeks) FR	Initial release: June 22, 2018 with Stargate
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2016	Melody Layers	-	-	-	-	-	FR144 (1 week) FR	First published: November 4th, 2016 feat. Luke Pritchard

more publishments

• 2015: To Describe You (with Mozambo feat. Molly)
• 2015: We'll Meet Again (feat.Emma Carn)
• 2018: Disco Night (with Throttle)
• 2019: Paris
• 2020: Dopamine (feat. JHart)

Remixes

• 2014: Coldplay - Clocks (Kungs Edit)
• 2015: Jasmine Thompson - Candy
• 2015: Bob Marley - Jammin '
• 2015: Lost Frequencies - Are You with Me
• 2015: Axwell Λ Ingrosso - On My Way
• 2016: David Guetta feat. Zara Larsson - This One's for You
• 2020: Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Mexico 2017: for the album Layers  New Zealand 2016: for the single This Girl  Poland 2016: for the single This Girl Platinum record  Australia 2016: for the single This Girl  Denmark 2016: for the single This Girl  Spain 2016: for the single This Girl

2 × platinum record  Belgium 2016: for the single This Girl 3 × platinum record  Sweden 2016: for the single This Girl 4 × platinum record  Italy 2017: for the single This Girl

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	diamond	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	-	platinum1	-	70,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	-	2 × platinum2	-	60,000	ultratop.be
Denmark (IFPI)	-	platinum1	-	60,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	gold1	2 × platinum2	-	1,000,000	musikindustrie.de
France (SNEP)	-	3 × platinum3	2 × diamond2	850,000	snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI)	-	4 × platinum4th	-	200,000	fimi.it
Mexico (AMPROFON)	gold1	-	-	30,000	amprofon.com.mx
New Zealand (RMNZ)	gold1	-	-	15,000	nztop40.co.nz
Austria (IFPI)	gold1	-	-	15,000	ifpi.at
Poland (ZPAV)	gold1	-	-	10,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Sweden (IFPI)	-	3 × platinum3	-	120,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Spain (Promusicae)	-	platinum1	-	40,000	elportaldemusica.es
United States (RIAA)	-	platinum1	-	1,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	-	2 × platinum2	-	1,200,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	5 × gold5	20 × platinum20th	2 × diamond2

swell

1. ↑ A 19 ans, Kungs nous électrise with "This Girl", un futur carton! ( Memento of April 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Valentin Malfroy, Aficia, accessed on April 15, 2016
2. ↑ Kungs (FR) ( Memento from April 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Landstreff Stavanger 2016, accessed on April 15, 2016
3. ↑ Kungs Releases Summer Hit “This Girl” , French Touch Music, March 28, 2016
4. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scuGfXXIn4U
5. ↑ KUNGS - New EP "This Girl" , LiveOnStage.Net, April 3, 2016
6. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: FR DE AT CH UK US
7. ↑ Paris - Single from Kungs . iTunes.
8. ↑ This One's for You (feat.Zara Larsson) Official Song UEFA EURO 2016 (Remixes) - EP by David Guetta . iTunes.
9. ↑ Don't Start Now (Remixes) - Single from Dua Lipa . iTunes.

Web links

Commons : Kungs  - Collection of Images

• Kungs at SoundCloud
• Kungs at Discogs (English)