Ships by Big Country Song Details

Big Country's 'Ships' had a release date set for May 5, 2013. This song is about six minutes long, preciously at 6:09, making this song fairly long compared to other songs. The track order of this song in Big Country's "In Concert" album is number 13 out of 14. In terms of popularity, Ships is currently not that popular. Although the tone can be danceable to some, this track does projects more of a negative sound rather than a postive one.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of Ships by Big Country to be Moderato (at a moderate speed) because the track has a tempo of 112 BPM, a half-time of 56BPM, and a double-time of 224 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is moderate. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

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
-10.151 dB
Acousticness
38%
Danceability
54%
Energy
49%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
23%
Loudness
83%
Speechiness
4%
Valence
38%

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