Ball N' Chain
Big Mama Thornton
Ball N' Chain
4:31 January 1, 1989
BPM
76
Key
B♭ Major
Camelot
6B

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Ball N' Chain by Big Mama Thornton Song Details

Big Mama Thornton's 'Ball N' Chain' had a release date set for January 1, 1989. With this song being about 5 minutes long, at This song is fairly a long song compared to the average song length. This song does not have an "Explicit" tag, making it safe for all ages. The song is number 16 out of 16 in Ball N' Chain by Big Mama Thornton. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United States. Ball N' Chain is below average in popularity right now. In our opinion, the overall tone is not very danceable and projects negative sounds, such as being sad, depressed, or angry.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of Ball N' Chain by Big Mama Thornton is Adagio (slowly with great expression), since this song has a tempo of 76 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a slow tempo. The time signature for this track is 3/4.

Music Key

B♭ Major is the music key of this track. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 6B. So, the perfect camelot match for 6B would be either 6B or 7A. While, 7B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 3B and a high energy boost can either be 8B or 1B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 6A or 5B will give you a low energy drop, 9B would be a moderate one, and 4B or 11B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 3A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-13.595 dB
Acousticness
36%
Danceability
29%
Energy
37%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
29%
Loudness
77%
Speechiness
4%
Valence
38%

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ISRC
USAP38930516
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records