City Lights by CHIC Song Details

On November 1, 1982, the song "City Lights" was released by CHIC. With this song being around four minutes long, at 4:27, 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 7 in the song's album "Tongue in Chic". In this album, this song's track order is #7. Furthermore, we believe that the track originated from United States. Based on our statistics, City Lights's popularity is not that popular 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

With City Lights by CHIC having a BPM of 120 with a half-time of 60 BPM and a double-time of 240 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Moderato (at a moderate speed) 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

G 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 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
-5.528 dB
Acousticness
8%
Danceability
72%
Energy
83%
Instrumentalness
83%
Liveness
11%
Loudness
91%
Speechiness
4%
Valence
86%

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ISRC
USAT20300055
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records