Closer to Heaven by The Alan Parsons Project Song Details

"Closer to Heaven" by The Alan Parsons Project had its release date on 1987. This song is about six minutes long, preciously at 5:53, making this song fairly long compared to other songs. The track order of this song in The Alan Parsons Project's "Gaudi (Expanded Edition)" album is number 3 out of 14. On top of that, United States appears to be the country where this track was created. Based on our statistics, Closer to Heaven's popularity is below average in popularity right now. Although the tone can be danceable to some, this track does projects more of a negative sound rather than a postive one.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of Closer to Heaven by The Alan Parsons Project to be Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) because the track has a tempo of 136 BPM, a half-time of 68BPM, and a double-time of 272 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is fast. Activities such as, walking, can go well with this song. The time signature for this track is 3/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical 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
-10.972 dB
Acousticness
23%
Danceability
52%
Energy
29%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
11%
Loudness
82%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
14%

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ISRC
USAR18700164
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records