Riding The Crest by a-ha Song Details

a-ha's ' "Riding The Crest" was released on its scheduled release date, June 12, 2009. With this song being around four minutes long, at 4:16, 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 2 out of 10 in Foot Of The Mountain by a-ha. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from Norway. Based on our statistics, Riding The Crest'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 Riding The Crest by a-ha is Vivace (lively and fast), since this song has a tempo of 157 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a fast tempo. This song can go great with running. 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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Popularity
Loudness
-5.558 dB
Acousticness
2%
Danceability
49%
Energy
92%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
29%
Loudness
91%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
70%

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ISRC
NOUM70900283
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records