The Dog Star by Jonathan Richman Song Details

On July 4, 2025, the song "The Dog Star" was released by Jonathan Richman. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:34, 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 12 in the song's album "Only Frozen Sky Anyway". In this album, this song's track order is #5. Based on our statistics, The Dog Star'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 The Dog Star by Jonathan Richman having a BPM of 132 with a half-time of 66 BPM and a double-time of 264 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) 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

This song is in the music key of G Major. 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
-10.5 dB
Acousticness
69%
Danceability
72%
Energy
65%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
11%
Loudness
82%
Speechiness
15%
Valence
87%

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ISRC
QT4VX2500049
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records