Gonna Buy a Hat by Chris Rea Song Details

Chris Rea's ' "Gonna Buy a Hat" was released on its scheduled release date, July 4, 1987. With this song being around four minutes long, at 4:21, 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 song is number 4 out of 14 in Dancing with Strangers by Chris Rea. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United Kingdom. Based on our statistics, Gonna Buy a Hat's popularity is below average in popularity right now. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of Gonna Buy a Hat by Chris Rea is Allegro (fast, quick, and bright), since this song has a tempo of 125 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a fast tempo. This song can go great with walking. 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 11B. So, the perfect camelot match for 11B would be either 11B or 12A. While, 12B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 8B and a high energy boost can either be 1B or 6B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 11A or 10B will give you a low energy drop, 2B would be a moderate one, and 9B or 4B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 8A allows you to change the mood.

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