David & Goliath by Jonathan Richman Song Details

Jonathan Richman's ' "David & Goliath" was released on its scheduled release date, July 4, 2025. 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. There are a total of 12 in the song's album "Only Frozen Sky Anyway". In this album, this song's track order is #10. In terms of popularity, David & Goliath is currently below average in popularity. 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 David & Goliath by Jonathan Richman having a BPM of 117 with a half-time of 58 BPM and a double-time of 234 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Moderato (at a moderate speed) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall moderate 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 B Major. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, 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
-12.014 dB
Acousticness
72%
Danceability
68%
Energy
46%
Instrumentalness
19%
Liveness
10%
Loudness
80%
Speechiness
5%
Valence
69%

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ISRC
QT4VX2500054
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records