One Step Ahead by Animotion Song Details

Animotion's ' "One Step Ahead" was released on its scheduled release date, February 10, 1986. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:35, 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. There are a total of 15 in the song's album "Strange Behavior". In this album, this song's track order is #9. Furthermore, we believe that the track originated from United States. Based on our statistics, One Step Ahead's popularity is unknown right now. Even with the track produces more of a neutral energy, it is pretty danceable compared to others.

BPM and Tempo

With One Step Ahead by Animotion having a BPM of 133 with a half-time of 66 BPM and a double-time of 266 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall fast tempo. Looking at the BPM of this song, this song might go great with walking. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

D 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 10B. So, the perfect camelot match for 10B would be either 10B or 11A. While, 11B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 7B and a high energy boost can either be 12B or 5B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 10A or 9B will give you a low energy drop, 1B would be a moderate one, and 8B or 3B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 7A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-5.055 dB
Acousticness
7%
Danceability
61%
Energy
93%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
13%
Loudness
92%
Speechiness
7%
Valence
41%

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ISRC
USUM72501993
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records