Kungs
Kungs is the French DJ and producer who turned a beachside guitar riff into a global house anthem before he was old enough to rent a car.
Kungs is the stage name of Valentin Brunel, a French DJ and producer born in 1996 on the island of Corsica. He exploded onto the global dance music scene in 2015 when his track This Girl — built around a sample of the Australian band Cookin’ on 3 Burners — became one of the biggest house records of the year, charting across Europe and beyond.
What makes Kungs notable is the speed of his rise: he was still a teenager when This Girl went platinum in multiple countries. He followed it up with Don’t You Know (featuring Jamie N Commons) and a string of polished deep-house and melodic-house records that cemented his reputation as one of France’s most commercially successful electronic acts.
France has an outsized track record in electronic music — Daft Punk, David Guetta, Justice, Gesaffelstein — and Kungs fits squarely in that tradition: meticulous sound design, pop instincts, and an ear for a hook that doesn’t let go. He regularly performs at major European festivals and has collaborated with artists across genres.
People search for Kungs because his tracks keep surfacing in playlists, ads, and TV shows years after their release — the mark of a genuinely durable pop-house sound. Many searchers also land here from adjacent queries about French house, EDM, or the sample behind This Girl.
People also ask
- What is the net worth of King the singer?#
- No reliably sourced, publicly verified net worth figure exists for Kungs (Valentin Brunel). Estimates circulate on celebrity-net-worth sites, but those numbers are unverified guesswork and not worth repeating as fact. What is documented is that he has scored multiple platinum records across Europe and headlined major festivals — commercially, he is one of the more successful French electronic acts of his generation.
- Is kungsleden worth it?#
- This question is about Sweden's Kungsleden hiking trail, not the artist Kungs. Yes — by the overwhelming consensus of trekkers worldwide, Kungsleden ('The King's Trail') is absolutely worth it: roughly 440 km of sub-arctic wilderness through Lapland, with mountain huts run by the Swedish Tourist Association making it accessible even without heavy camping gear. Go in late summer to dodge the worst of the mosquitoes.
- What song by the Kinks was once banned by the BBC?#
- The BBC banned *Lola* (1970) — not for its famously ambiguous gender themes, but for a mundane reason: the lyric name-dropped Coca-Cola, which violated the BBC's strict rules against product advertising in songs. Ray Davies famously flew back from a US tour to re-record the line, replacing 'Coca-Cola' with 'cherry cola' to get airplay.
- How old is Kungs?#
- Kungs (Valentin Brunel) was born on November 26, 1996, making him 28 years old as of 2025. He was just 18 when *This Girl* became a European smash — one of the more striking 'teenager goes global' stories in recent dance music.
- How old was 50 Cent when he blew up?#
- 50 Cent was 27 when *Get Rich or Die Tryin'* dropped in February 2003 — one of the fastest-selling debut albums in history, moving over 800,000 copies in its first four days in the US. Not a prodigy story, but a grind story: years of mixtape warfare and a near-fatal shooting preceded that mainstream explosion.
- Why is phonk considered cringe?#
- Because overexposure killed the mystique. Phonk started as a niche Memphis-rap-influenced subgenre with genuine atmosphere; once it became the default soundtrack for every car-reveal TikTok and aggressive gym reel around 2021–2023, the association with try-hard internet posturing became impossible to ignore. The genre didn't get bad — it got commodified, and the internet has no mercy for that.
- Why do ADHD people like EDM?#
- The honest answer is that this is an observed pattern, not yet a fully peer-reviewed certainty — but the leading explanation is dopaminergic: ADHD brains are chronically under-stimulated in baseline states, and high-BPM music with repetitive builds and explosive drops delivers rapid, predictable dopamine hits that help regulate attention. The rhythmic predictability also functions as an external structure that ADHD brains often struggle to generate internally. It's self-medication through sound, essentially.
- What type of music is Kungs?#
- Kungs operates primarily in deep house and melodic house — the cleaner, more melodic end of the electronic music spectrum. His productions favor warm basslines, soulful vocal samples or guest singers, and pop-length structures. He's closer to the radio-friendly side of house music than to underground club culture.
- What are Kungs' biggest hits?#
- *This Girl* (2015) remains his signature track and the record most people associate with his name — a multi-platinum hit across Europe. *Don't You Know* featuring Jamie N Commons and *Clap Your Hands* are strong follow-ups. More recently, *Relax* and collaborations with artists like Stargate and Olly Murs have kept him charting. But *This Girl* is the one that defined him.
- Is Kungs an EDM?#
- Sort of — it depends on how broadly you use 'EDM.' Kungs makes electronic dance music in the literal sense, yes. But 'EDM' as a genre label typically points to big-room festival house, dubstep, and hard-hitting drops in the David Guetta or Marshmello vein. Kungs is more precisely a deep-house and melodic-house producer — smoother, cooler, and more rooted in classic house traditions than the EDM festival circuit.
- Where is Kungs from?#
- Kungs (Valentin Brunel) is from Corsica, France — the Mediterranean island that is legally French territory. He grew up there and began producing music as a teenager before breaking internationally from Paris. He is French, and firmly part of the storied French electronic music tradition.
- What did Paul McCartney say was the best song ever written?#
- McCartney has pointed to *Yesterday* — his own composition — as remarkable for its unusual genesis (he claims the melody came to him in a dream), but he has also repeatedly cited other songwriters in interviews. He has publicly praised Ray Charles's *Georgia on My Mind* and has spoken admiringly of Cole Porter and Smokey Robinson. He hasn't issued one definitive 'best ever' decree, and any claim otherwise should be checked against the original interview source.
- What is the #1 hit of all time?#
- By most combined metrics — radio play, physical sales, and streams — Bing Crosby's *White Christmas* (1942) and Elton John's *Something About the Way You Look Tonight / Candle in the Wind 1997* are the best-documented candidates for all-time physical sales records. On pure streaming, *Blinding Lights* by The Weeknd held Spotify's all-time record for years. There is no single universal chart, so 'number one' depends heavily on which era and format you measure.
- What is the #1 most listened to song ever?#
- On Spotify — the largest single streaming platform — *Blinding Lights* by The Weeknd long held the record for most streams. On YouTube, *Baby Shark* by Pinkfong is the most-viewed video in the platform's history with over 13 billion views. Neither is a satisfying 'of all time' answer across all formats and eras, but those are the defensible, documented benchmarks.
- Which is the biggest hit of all time?#
- Same contested territory as above — it depends on your metric. For total estimated sales across all formats, *White Christmas* is the perennial frontrunner with over 50 million copies sold, widely cited by music historians. For modern streaming dominance, *Blinding Lights* is the benchmark. Pick your era, pick your format, pick your answer.
- What is Con Funk Shun doing now?#
- Con Funk Shun, the R&B/funk group best known for 1970s–80s hits like *Ffun* and *Too Tight*, has continued performing on the oldies and R&B touring circuit. The group, led by Michael Cooper, has been active at retro-soul festivals and reunion events. Their recording output in recent years has been minimal, but they maintain a live presence for fans of the classic funk era.
- Did Paul McCartney like the Kinks?#
- McCartney has spoken warmly about Ray Davies and the Kinks in various interviews over the years, acknowledging them as part of the same golden era of British pop. The Beatles and the Kinks were contemporaries and commercial rivals in the mid-1960s, and there was mutual professional respect. No documented beef — just two camps of the British Invasion.
- Who is considered the king of crunk?#
- Lil Jon. Full stop. The Atlanta producer and rapper defined and commercialized crunk in the early 2000s with records like *Get Low* (with the Ying Yang Twins) and his work on the *Kings of Crunk* album. He didn't just participate in the genre — he built its sonic identity: the thundering 808s, the call-and-response chants, the energy drink-fueled maximalism.
- What genre of music is Kungs?#
- Deep house and melodic house, with strong pop sensibility. Kungs doesn't stray far from that lane — his catalog is remarkably consistent in tone: warm, sun-drenched electronic music designed to sound equally good on festival grounds and in a car with the windows down.
- Which song was a bigger hit?#
- No two songs were specified in the question, so there's nothing to compare here. If you're asking in the context of Kungs, *This Girl* is objectively his biggest hit — multiple platinum certifications across Europe, and a longevity in streaming playlists that none of his subsequent releases have matched. If you had two specific songs in mind, drop them and we'll give you a straight answer.