E major · Camelot 12B · 112 BPM
Everywhere
by Fleetwood Mac
- 112
- BPM
- E major
- Key
- 12B
- Camelot
- 73
- Danceability
- 26
- Acousticness
Christine McVie wrote "Everywhere" for Fleetwood Mac's 1987 album Tango in the Night, and the recording session produced one of the record's most discussed details: its intro. Co-producer Richard Dashut later explained that the opening combined a half-speed acoustic guitar with an electric one. Buckingham had slowed the tape down so the parts could be played at a crawling pace, and when the recording returned to the right speed the effect, in McVie's words, sounded bloody amazing.
The single came out in the United States in November 1987 as the album's fourth single, with the United Kingdom following on 21 March 1988 as the fifth. It reached number 14 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and spent three weeks at number one on the Adult Contemporary chart, while in Britain it climbed to number four and earned a 7× platinum certification for sales and streams above 4.2 million units. The song also topped the charts in Belgium and on the Canadian adult contemporary listing.
An earlier version of the track lacked harmonies that Stevie Nicks had recorded, which led to a heated argument during production. The release itself was expansive: a twelve-inch single carried an extended dance version and a dub version, the mini-CD added "Rhiannon" and "Say You Love Me" from the band's 1975 album, and every format included the B-side "When I See You Again". It was also the band's first CD single release in most territories, with cover art by Lindsey Loch.
Everywhere runs at 112 BPM, the tempo of pop, funk and disco-leaning dance. In classical terms it sits in moderato territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 2.14 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 536 ms. It is in E major, Camelot 12B, which shares its notes with C# minor and mixes cleanly with A major and B major.
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