Ghost Town by The Specials Song Details

The Specials's ' "Ghost Town" was released on its scheduled release date, September 1, 2011. 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 track order of this song in Various Artists's "Hellbent - Halloween's Best" album is number 10 out of 30. Based on our statistics, Ghost Town's popularity is not that popular right now. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of Ghost Town by The Specials to be Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) because the track has a tempo of 151 BPM, a half-time of 76BPM, and a double-time of 302 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is fast. Activities such as, running, can go well with this song. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of A♭ Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 4B. So, the perfect camelot match for 4B would be either 4B or 5A. While, 5B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 1B and a high energy boost can either be 6B or 11B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 4A or 3B will give you a low energy drop, 7B would be a moderate one, and 2B or 9B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 1A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-6.494 dB
Acousticness
1%
Danceability
44%
Energy
80%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
56%
Loudness
89%
Speechiness
8%
Valence
79%

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ISRC
This song does not have an ISRC.
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records