It's A Mistake by Colin Hay Song Details

Colin Hay's ' "It's A Mistake" was released on its scheduled release date, July 22, 2003. With this song being about 5 minutes long, at This song is fairly a long song compared to the average song length. This song does not have an "Explicit" tag, making it safe for all ages. The track order of this song in Colin Hay's "Man @ Work" album is number 7 out of 13. On top of that, United States appears to be the country where this track was created. In terms of popularity, It's A Mistake is currently below average in popularity. Even with the track produces more of a neutral energy, it is pretty danceable compared to others.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of It's A Mistake by Colin Hay to be Andante (at a walking pace) because the track has a tempo of 106 BPM, a half-time of 53BPM, and a double-time of 212 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is slow. 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
-7.981 dB
Acousticness
0%
Danceability
71%
Energy
56%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
8%
Loudness
87%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
56%

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ISRC
USCO90336507
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records