F major · Camelot 7B · 98 BPM
Next in Line
by Conway Twitty
- 98
- BPM
- F major
- Key
- 7B
- Camelot
- 53
- Danceability
- 22
- Acousticness
Conway Twitty released "Next in Line" in August 1968 as the first single and title track from his album of the same name. The song was written by Wayne Kemp and Curtis Wayne, and it arrived as the American country singer was building on a career that had begun in the 1950s rockabilly scene before he turned his attention to country music.
The single became Twitty's sixth entry on the country charts and his first of 54 number ones across all the country charts, spending a single week at the top and a total of 13 weeks inside the top 40. It was also his second chart-topping single overall, following "It's Only Make Believe", which had reached number one on the pop charts in 1958.
Twitty, born Harold Lloyd Jenkins, was known for the romantic and sentimental themes that ran through his recordings, a quality that helped build a following so devoted that comedian Jerry Clower nicknamed him "The High Priest of Country Music". That title later named his 33rd studio album. "Next in Line" marked the start of a chart run that saw him top Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart 40 times, a record that stood for two decades until George Strait passed it.
Next in Line runs at 98 BPM, the tempo of hip-hop, R&B and reggaeton. In classical terms it sits in andante territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 2.45 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 612 ms. It is in F major, Camelot 7B, which shares its notes with D minor and mixes cleanly with Bb major and C major.
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