Once Around the Block by Badly Drawn Boy Song Details

On August 23, 1999, the song "Once Around the Block" was released by Badly Drawn Boy. With this song being around four minutes long, at 4:04, 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 5 in the song's album "Once Around the Block". In this album, this song's track order is #1. In terms of popularity, Once Around the Block is currently not that popular. The mood doesn't appear to be that danceable, but it still produces a high amount of positive energy.

BPM and Tempo

With Once Around the Block by Badly Drawn Boy having a BPM of 116 with a half-time of 58 BPM and a double-time of 232 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 moderate 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

F 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 7B. So, the perfect camelot match for 7B would be either 7B or 8A. While, 8B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 4B and a high energy boost can either be 9B or 2B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 7A or 6B will give you a low energy drop, 10B would be a moderate one, and 5B or 12B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 4A allows you to change the mood.

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