The Closer You Get by Exile Song Details

Exile's ' "The Closer You Get" was released on its scheduled release date, 1980. 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 track order of this song in Exile's "Keeping It Country" album is number 8 out of 10. On top of that, United States appears to be the country where this track was created. In terms of popularity, The Closer You Get is currently below average in popularity. Even with the track produces more of a neutral energy, it is pretty danceable compared to others.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of The Closer You Get by Exile to be Andante (at a walking pace) because the track has a tempo of 101 BPM, a half-time of 50BPM, and a double-time of 202 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is slow. 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
-14.76 dB
Acousticness
15%
Danceability
69%
Energy
43%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
15%
Loudness
75%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
54%

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ISRC
USCRB0606973
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records