All 24 Camelot keys, and how the catalog is spread across them
The most common Camelot key in the catalog is 8A (A Minor) — 37,562 tracks, 8.06% of the 466,317 we hold with a detected key. The rarest is 1B (B Major) at 1.65%, 4.9× thinner. Minor keys take 8 of the top ten and 61.0% of everything, and the six busiest keys alone account for 38.3%.
How many tracks are in each key
Every public track we have analysed, grouped by its detected Camelot key. Ranked by size — the wheel is nowhere near evenly loaded.
| # | Key | Musical key | Share of catalog | Tracks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8A | A Minor | 8.06% | 37,562 |
| 2 | 6A | G Minor | 6.51% | 30,375 |
| 3 | 7A | D Minor | 6.13% | 28,586 |
| 4 | 4A | F Minor | 6.02% | 28,071 |
| 5 | 9A | E Minor | 5.96% | 27,814 |
| 6 | 5A | C Minor | 5.66% | 26,384 |
| 7 | 7B | F Major | 5.27% | 24,554 |
| 8 | 9B | G Major | 4.65% | 21,685 |
| 9 | 11A | F# Minor | 4.23% | 19,711 |
| 10 | 2A | Eb Minor | 4.20% | 19,590 |
| 11 | 10B | D Major | 4.14% | 19,304 |
| 12 | 10A | B Minor | 3.99% | 18,601 |
| 13 | 3A | Bb Minor | 3.92% | 18,277 |
| 14 | 8B | C Major | 3.78% | 17,606 |
| 15 | 11B | A Major | 3.67% | 17,110 |
| 16 | 12B | E Major | 3.51% | 16,387 |
| 17 | 1A | Ab Minor | 3.43% | 15,973 |
| 18 | 5B | Eb Major | 3.08% | 14,352 |
| 19 | 12A | C# Minor | 2.94% | 13,721 |
| 20 | 2B | F# Major | 2.61% | 12,149 |
| 21 | 4B | Ab Major | 2.57% | 11,966 |
| 22 | 6B | Bb Major | 2.32% | 10,807 |
| 23 | 3B | Db Major | 1.72% | 8,035 |
| 24 | 1B | B Major | 1.65% | 7,697 |
What the skew means in practice: a safe move out of a busy key has thousands of candidates behind it, and the same move out of a thin one has hundreds. If you find yourself short of options, you are usually not short of ideas — you are standing in a corner of the wheel the catalog barely fills. Each key page below has its own genre and tempo breakdown.
Minor Keys (A)
Darker, more introspective — ideal for building tension and atmospheric sets
Major Keys (B)
Brighter, more uplifting — perfect for peak-time energy and euphoric moments
About the Camelot Wheel
The Camelot Wheel is a visual tool that maps musical keys to alphanumeric codes (1A through 12B), making harmonic mixing intuitive. Keys that are adjacent on the wheel — or share the same number with a different letter — are harmonically compatible.
Minor keys (A) tend to sound darker and more atmospheric, while major keys (B) sound brighter and more uplifting. Mixing between A and B at the same number creates a mood shift without harmonic clash.
Plan a harmonically perfect set