Years & Years
English music project
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| February 7 2025 | Released debut solo album 'Polari'. |
| 2024 | Confirmed that the Years & Years project had disbanded. |
| 2023 | Years & Years released additional singles '100% Pure Love' and 'A Very Bad Fun Idea'. |
| 2023 | Olly Alexander stopped using the band's name and switched to performing under his own name. |
| December 16 2023 | Announced that Olly Alexander will represent the UK at Eurovision Song Contest 2024 under his own name. |
| June 3 2023 | Headlined the Mighty Hoopla music festival, sharing top billing with Kelly Rowland. |
| 2022 | Years & Years released the single 'Night Call' from their album of the same name, which peaked at number 41 in the charts. |
| 2022 | Years & Years released two singles: 'Sooner or Later' from the album 'Night Call' and 'Montero (Call Me by Your Name)' as a non-album single |
| 2022 | Years & Years released 'American Boy' as a non-album single |
| 2022 | Years & Years released 'Hallucination' with Regard, which received Silver certification from BPI. |
| 2022 | Exit Kid released the songs 'Out Of Time' and 'Sura'. |
| 2022 | Years & Years launched the Night Call Tour, promoting their third studio album Night Call. |
| November 1 2022 | Released a cover of Crystal Waters' '100% Pure Love', which was used in Target's holiday campaign. |
| February 15 2022 | Released a remix of 'Starstruck' featuring J-pop singer SIRUP. |
| January 21 2022 | Released the album Night Call. |
| 2021 | Years & Years released several music videos, including 'It's a Sin' (a montage video directed by Olly Alexander), 'Starstruck' (directed by Fred Rowson), 'Crave' (directed by Tom Beard), and 'Sweet Talker' featuring Galantis (directed by Sophia Ray) |
| 2021 | Years & Years released multiple singles including 'It's a Sin' with Elton John, 'Starstruck' with Kylie Minogue, 'Crave', and 'A Second to Midnight' also featuring Kylie Minogue from their album 'Night Call'. |
| 2021 | Years & Years collaborated with Galantis on the single 'Sweet Talker', which received Gold certification from BPI. |
| September 28 2021 | Released the second single 'Crave' and announced the third studio album Night Call. |
| May 21 2021 | Released a remix of 'Starstruck' featuring Kylie Minogue. |
| April 8 2021 | Released 'Starstruck' as the first single under the solo project, marking Years & Years' first release with Olly Alexander as the primary artist. |
| March 18 2021 | The band announced through an Instagram post that their upcoming album would be a solo project by Olly Alexander, with the band name Years & Years continuing to be used. |
| 2020 | Years & Years featured on Pet Shop Boys' track 'Dreamland', which reached number 11 in the charts on the album 'Hotspot' |
| 2020 | Exit Kid released the single 'You Got All The World', featuring Türkmen's wife on vocals. |
| 2019 | Years & Years collaborated with Tourist on the track 'Illuminate' |
| 2019 | Years & Years performed a version of Pet Shop Boys' song 'It's a Sin'. |
| September 11 2019 | Released 'Dreamland', a collaboration with Pet Shop Boys, performing together at Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park. |
| March 4 2019 | Announced Emre's hiatus from the band due to the birth of his daughter Daphne Türkmen. Performed at Glastonbury Festival where Alexander gave a universally praised speech. |
| February 14 2019 | Released collaboration single 'Valentino' with MNEK. |
| January 28 2019 | Released music video for 'Play' featuring a supermarket belt dance with Jax Jones. |
| 2018 | Years & Years released multiple music videos including 'Sanctify', 'If You're Over Me', and 'All For You' directed by Fred Rowson and Stephen Agnew |
| 2018 | Years & Years released the single 'Karma' from their album Palo Santo, which peaked at number 91 in the charts. |
| November 2018 | Released 'Play', a collaboration with DJ Jax Jones that peaked at number 8 on the UK Official Chart. |
| November 16 2018 | Released a cover of 'Come Alive' from The Greatest Showman: Reimagined, featuring Jess Glynne. |
| September 17 2018 | Released music video for 'All for You'. |
| July 6 2018 | Released the Palo Santo album, which reached number 3 on the UK Albums Chart. |
| June 27 2018 | Released 'All for You' single. |
| June 22 2018 | Released the album's title track 'Palo Santo'. |
| June 18 2018 | Announced European dates for their Palo Santo Tour. |
| May 14 2018 | Music video for 'If You're Over Me' was released. |
| May 10 2018 | Second single 'If You're Over Me' was released. |
| March 7 2018 | First single 'Sanctify' was released, becoming the number 1 trending video on YouTube within 24 hours. |
| 2017 | Emre Türkmen formed the grunge duo Exit Kid with touring drummer Dylan Bell while continuing to be a member of Years & Years. |
| September 28 2016 | Music video for 'Meteorite' was released. |
| September 13 2016 | The band released the song 'Meteorite' for the Bridget Jones's Baby soundtrack. |
| September 11 2016 | Years & Years performed the final show of their Communion tour at Lollapalooza in Berlin. |
| July 2016 | The music video for their single 'Worship' was released, directed by Matt Lambert with choreography by Ryan Heffington. |
| April 8 2016 | The band played their biggest headline show to date at Wembley Arena in London, completely selling out the venue during their UK headline tour. |
| March 2 2016 | The band announced a collaboration with Tove Lo on a new version of their single 'Desire'. |
| January 2016 | Years & Years were nominated for four Brit Awards: British Group, British Breakthrough Act, British Single (for 'King'), and British Artist Video (for 'King'). |
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