It Only Has To Happen Once
Ambitious Lovers
Greed
3:42 January 1, 1988
BPM
107
Key
A♭ Major
Camelot
4B

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It Only Has To Happen Once by Ambitious Lovers Song Details

Ambitious Lovers's ' "It Only Has To Happen Once" was released on its scheduled release date, January 1, 1988. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:42, the duration of this song is pretty average compared to other songs. This track is safe for children and doesn't appear to contain any foul language, since the "Explicit" tag was not present in this track. The track order of this song in Ambitious Lovers's "Greed" album is number 12 out of 13. On top of that, United States appears to be the country where this track was created. In terms of popularity, It Only Has To Happen Once is currently not that popular. The overall tone is very danceable, especially with its high energy, which produces more of a euphoric, cheerful, or happy vibe.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of It Only Has To Happen Once by Ambitious Lovers to be Andante (at a walking pace) because the track has a tempo of 107 BPM, a half-time of 54BPM, and a double-time of 214 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is slow. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

A♭ Major is the music key of this track. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 4B. So, the perfect camelot match for 4B would be either 4B or 5A. While, 5B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 1B and a high energy boost can either be 6B or 11B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 4A or 3B will give you a low energy drop, 7B would be a moderate one, and 2B or 9B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 1A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-20.18 dB
Acousticness
15%
Danceability
87%
Energy
32%
Instrumentalness
11%
Liveness
7%
Loudness
66%
Speechiness
6%
Valence
72%

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ISRC
USVI28800077
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records