One Great Thing
Big Country
The Seer
4:01 July 14, 1986
BPM
105
Key
E Major
Camelot
12B

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One Great Thing by Big Country Song Details

Big Country's ' "One Great Thing" was released on its scheduled release date, July 14, 1986. With this song being around four minutes long, at 4:01, 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 14 in the song's album "The Seer". In this album, this song's track order is #6. Furthermore, we believe that the track originated from United Kingdom. In terms of popularity, One Great Thing is currently below average in popularity. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

BPM and Tempo

With One Great Thing by Big Country having a BPM of 105 with a half-time of 52 BPM and a double-time of 210 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

E Major is the music key of this track. 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
-10.437 dB
Acousticness
0%
Danceability
56%
Energy
89%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
22%
Loudness
83%
Speechiness
4%
Valence
65%

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ISRC
GBF088600026
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records