Taking Chances by Billy Ocean Song Details

Billy Ocean's ' "Taking Chances" was released on its scheduled release date, 1981. With this song being around four minutes long, at 4:15, 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. There are a total of 13 in the song's album "Nights (Feel Like Getting Down) [Expanded Edition]". In this album, this song's track order is #9. In terms of popularity, Taking Chances is currently not that popular. Since there is more of a neutral sound being played, this makes the track somewhat danceable.

BPM and Tempo

With Taking Chances by Billy Ocean having a BPM of 103 with a half-time of 52 BPM and a double-time of 206 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 3/4.

Music Key

G Major is the music key of this track. This also means that 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
-5.675 dB
Acousticness
19%
Danceability
54%
Energy
47%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
10%
Loudness
91%
Speechiness
16%
Valence
41%

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ISRC
This song does not have an ISRC.
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records