Darkness by The Police Song Details

The Police's ' "Darkness" was released on its scheduled release date, October 2, 1981. 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 track order of this song in The Police's "Ghost In The Machine (Alternate Sequence)" album is number 4 out of 14. On top of that, United Kingdom appears to be the country where this track was created. Darkness 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

We consider the tempo marking of Darkness by The Police to be Andante (at a walking pace) because the track has a tempo of 82 BPM, a half-time of 41BPM, and a double-time of 164 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is slow. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of D Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 10B. So, the perfect camelot match for 10B would be either 10B or 11A. While, 11B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 7B and a high energy boost can either be 12B or 5B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 10A or 9B will give you a low energy drop, 1B would be a moderate one, and 8B or 3B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 7A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-16.545 dB
Acousticness
21%
Danceability
56%
Energy
52%
Instrumentalness
3%
Liveness
5%
Loudness
72%
Speechiness
4%
Valence
43%

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ISRC
GBAAM8100012
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records