Those Were the Days by Dan McCabe Song Details

Dan McCabe's 'Those Were the Days' had a release date set for November 17, 2025. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:45, 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 Dan McCabe's "My Heart's Tonight In Ireland" album is number 6 out of 12. On top of that, Ireland appears to be the country where this track was created. The popularity of Those Were the Days is currently below average in popularity right now. 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 Those Were the Days by Dan McCabe to be Vivace (lively and fast) because the track has a tempo of 160 BPM, a half-time of 80BPM, and a double-time of 320 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is fast. Activities such as, running, can go well with this song. The time signature for this track is 3/4.

Music Key

E Major is the music key of this track. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 12B. So, the perfect camelot match for 12B would be either 12B or 1A. While, 1B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 9B and a high energy boost can either be 2B or 7B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 12A or 11B will give you a low energy drop, 3B would be a moderate one, and 10B or 5B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 9A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-8.472 dB
Acousticness
77%
Danceability
48%
Energy
31%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
26%
Loudness
86%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
24%

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ISRC
IEJKC2500021
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records