August Was A Heavy Month by Bob Geldof Song Details

Bob Geldof's ' "August Was A Heavy Month" was released on its scheduled release date, January 1, 1986. 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. The song is number 3 out of 14 in Deep In The Heart Of Nowhere by Bob Geldof. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United Kingdom. Based on our statistics, August Was A Heavy Month's popularity 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

The tempo marking of August Was A Heavy Month by Bob Geldof is Allegro (fast, quick, and bright), since this song has a tempo of 129 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a fast tempo. This song can go great with walking. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

B Major is the music key of this track. This also means that 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
-16.069 dB
Acousticness
32%
Danceability
59%
Energy
35%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
11%
Loudness
73%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
44%

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ISRC
GBF080500961
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records