The Light Is On by Christopher Cross Song Details

Christopher Cross's ' "The Light Is On" was released on its scheduled release date, 1979. With this song being around four minutes long, at 4:11, 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 7 out of 9 in Christopher Cross by Christopher Cross. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United States. Based on our statistics, The Light Is On's popularity is average in popularity right now. The overall tone is very danceable, especially with its high energy, which produces more of a euphoric, cheerful, or happy vibe.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of The Light Is On by Christopher Cross is Moderato (at a moderate speed), since this song has a tempo of 120 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a fast tempo. This song can go great with walking. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

B Major is the music key of this track. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 1B. So, the perfect camelot match for 1B would be either 1B or 2A. While, 2B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 10B and a high energy boost can either be 3B or 8B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 1A or 12B will give you a low energy drop, 4B would be a moderate one, and 11B or 6B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 10A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-17.678 dB
Acousticness
72%
Danceability
71%
Energy
40%
Instrumentalness
9%
Liveness
5%
Loudness
71%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
66%

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ISRC
USWB19901343
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records