The Price You Pay
Bruce Springsteen
The River
5:26 October 17, 1980
BPM
105
Key
G Major
Camelot
9B

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The Price You Pay by Bruce Springsteen Song Details

Bruce Springsteen's ' "The Price You Pay" was released on its scheduled release date, October 17, 1980. 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. There are a total of 20 in the song's album "The River". In this album, this song's track order is #7. Furthermore, we believe that the track originated from United States. In terms of popularity, The Price You Pay is currently below average in popularity. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

BPM and Tempo

With The Price You Pay by Bruce Springsteen having a BPM of 105 with a half-time of 52 BPM and a double-time of 210 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Andante (at a walking pace) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall slow tempo. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

G Major is the music key of this track. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, this song has a camelot key of 9B. So, the perfect camelot match for 9B would be either 9B or 10A. While, 10B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 6B and a high energy boost can either be 11B or 4B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 9A or 8B will give you a low energy drop, 12B would be a moderate one, and 7B or 2B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 6A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-7.929 dB
Acousticness
12%
Danceability
55%
Energy
67%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
5%
Loudness
87%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
73%

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ISRC
USSM18000413
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records