Prelude by John Legend Song Details

John Legend's ' "Prelude" was released on its scheduled release date, December 6, 2005. With This song being less than a minute long, we are pretty confident that this song does not contain any foul language. That being said, this song is pretty short compared to other songs. The track order of this song in John Legend's "Get Lifted" album is number 1 out of 15. Prelude is below average in popularity right now. Since there is more of a neutral sound being played, this makes the track somewhat danceable.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of Prelude by John Legend to be Larghetto (rather broadly) because the track has a tempo of 65 BPM, a half-time of 32BPM, and a double-time of 130 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is slow. The time signature for this track is 3/4.

Music Key

This song is in the music key of C Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 8B. So, the perfect camelot match for 8B would be either 8B or 9A. While, 9B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 5B and a high energy boost can either be 10B or 3B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 8A or 7B will give you a low energy drop, 11B would be a moderate one, and 6B or 1B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 5A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-15.663 dB
Acousticness
94%
Danceability
52%
Energy
19%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
14%
Loudness
74%
Speechiness
4%
Valence
51%

Recommendations

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