What Am I Here For? by Count Basie Song Details

Count Basie's ' "What Am I Here For?" was released on its scheduled release date, 1956. The duration of This song is about 3 minutes long, at 3:19. Based on our data, This song appears to be safe for all ages and is not considered explicit. This track is about the average length of a typical track. The song is number 7 out of 17 in April In Paris (Expanded Edition) by Count Basie. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United States. In terms of popularity, What Am I Here For? is currently not that popular. Since there is more of a neutral sound being played, this makes the track somewhat danceable.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of What Am I Here For? by Count Basie is Moderato (at a moderate speed), since this song has a tempo of 111 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a moderate tempo. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

C Major is the music key of this track. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 8B. So, the perfect camelot match for 8B would be either 8B or 9A. While, 9B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 5B and a high energy boost can either be 10B or 3B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 8A or 7B will give you a low energy drop, 11B would be a moderate one, and 6B or 1B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 5A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-13.166 dB
Acousticness
77%
Danceability
58%
Energy
22%
Instrumentalness
3%
Liveness
56%
Loudness
78%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
48%

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ISRC
USF095500070
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records