The Day the Light Went Out by Genesis Song Details

Genesis's ' "The Day the Light Went Out" was released on its scheduled release date, 2000. The duration of This song is about 3 minutes long, at 3:14. Based on our data, This song appears to be safe for all ages and is not considered explicit. This track is about the average length of a typical track. The song is number 30 out of 34 in Archive #2 (1976 - 1992) by Genesis. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United Kingdom. Based on our statistics, The Day the Light Went Out's popularity is not that popular right now. The mood doesn't appear to be that danceable, but it still produces a high amount of positive energy.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of The Day the Light Went Out by Genesis is Allegro (fast, quick, and bright), since this song has a tempo of 128 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a fast tempo. This song can go great with walking. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song is in the music key of A♭ Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 4B. So, the perfect camelot match for 4B would be either 4B or 5A. While, 5B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 1B and a high energy boost can either be 6B or 11B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 4A or 3B will give you a low energy drop, 7B would be a moderate one, and 2B or 9B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 1A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-5.724 dB
Acousticness
35%
Danceability
31%
Energy
84%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
7%
Loudness
90%
Speechiness
5%
Valence
66%

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ISRC
GBAAA0000828
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records