The Only One by Lionel Richie Song Details

Lionel Richie's ' "The Only One" was released on its scheduled release date, January 1, 1983. With this song being around four minutes long, at 4:17, 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. The song is number 6 out of 8 in Can't Slow Down by Lionel Richie. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United States. Based on our statistics, The Only One's popularity is fairly popular right now. Even with the track produces more of a neutral energy, it is pretty danceable compared to others.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of The Only One by Lionel Richie 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

This song is in the music key of B Major. 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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