The Upper Hand by Cusp Song Details

Cusp's ' "The Upper Hand" was released on its scheduled release date, October 17, 2025. The duration of This song is about two minutes long, specifically at 2:47. This song does not appear to have any foul language. The Upper Hand's duration is considered a little bit shorter than the average duration of a typical track. This song is part of What I Want Doesn't Want Me Back by Cusp. The song's track number on the album is #4 out of 10 tracks. Based on our data, United States was the country where this track was produced or recorded. In terms of popularity, The Upper Hand 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

Since The Upper Hand by Cusp has a tempo of 96 beats per a minute, the tempo markings of this song would be Andante (at a walking pace). With The Upper Hand being at 96 BPM, the half-time would be 48 BPM with a double-time of 192 BPM.In addition, we consider the tempo speed to be pretty slow for this song. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

E♭ 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 5B. So, the perfect camelot match for 5B would be either 5B or 6A. While, 6B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 2B and a high energy boost can either be 7B or 12B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 5A or 4B will give you a low energy drop, 8B would be a moderate one, and 3B or 10B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 2A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-8.713 dB
Acousticness
57%
Danceability
58%
Energy
64%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
6%
Loudness
85%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
69%

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ISRC
USA2B2513161
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records