Took Me By Surprise by Mark May Song Details

Mark May's ' "Took Me By Surprise" was released on its scheduled release date, March 9, 1999. This song is about six minutes long, preciously at 6:03, making this song fairly long compared to other songs. There are a total of 12 in the song's album "Telephone Road". In this album, this song's track order is #9. Took Me By Surprise is not that popular right now. Since there is more of a neutral sound being played, this makes the track somewhat danceable.

BPM and Tempo

With Took Me By Surprise by Mark May having a BPM of 82 with a half-time of 41 BPM and a double-time of 164 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Andante (at a walking pace) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall slow tempo. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song is in the music key of E Major. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, this song has a camelot key of 12B. So, the perfect camelot match for 12B would be either 12B or 1A. While, 1B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 9B and a high energy boost can either be 2B or 7B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 12A or 11B will give you a low energy drop, 3B would be a moderate one, and 10B or 5B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 9A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-8.839 dB
Acousticness
19%
Danceability
45%
Energy
56%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
12%
Loudness
85%
Speechiness
4%
Valence
55%

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ISRC
This song does not have an ISRC.
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records