Northern Lights by Soft Cell Song Details

On August 15, 2018, the song "Northern Lights" was released by Soft Cell. With this song being around four minutes long, at 4:23, 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. Because this song is the only song in Northern Lights and no other songs are present in the album, we classify this track as a single. Furthermore, we believe that the track originated from United Kingdom. Based on our statistics, Northern Lights's popularity is not that popular right now. 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 Northern Lights by Soft Cell having a BPM of 132 with a half-time of 66 BPM and a double-time of 264 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall fast 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 has a musical key of G Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 9B. So, the perfect camelot match for 9B would be either 9B or 10A. While, 10B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 6B and a high energy boost can either be 11B or 4B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 9A or 8B will give you a low energy drop, 12B would be a moderate one, and 7B or 2B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 6A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-8.345 dB
Acousticness
10%
Danceability
81%
Energy
60%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
9%
Loudness
86%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
83%

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ISRC
GBUM71804730
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records