A Better Place to Be by Harry Chapin Song Details

Harry Chapin's ' "A Better Place to Be" was released on its scheduled release date, 1972. Since This song is still less than 10 minute long, it is still considered a pretty long duration song compared to the average song length. This song does not appear to be explicit due to the lack of the "E" tag. There are a total of 9 in the song's album "Sniper and Other Love Songs". In this album, this song's track order is #6. Furthermore, we believe that the track originated from United States. In terms of popularity, A Better Place to Be is currently below average in popularity. Since there is more of a neutral sound being played, this makes the track somewhat danceable.

BPM and Tempo

With A Better Place to Be by Harry Chapin having a BPM of 115 with a half-time of 58 BPM and a double-time of 230 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 D Major. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, 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
-16.619 dB
Acousticness
58%
Danceability
48%
Energy
31%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
16%
Loudness
72%
Speechiness
5%
Valence
41%

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ISRC
USEE10180474
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records