TempoPeek

Adele · 25

Water Under the Bridge

Water Under the Bridge is in A flat major at 95 beats per minute.

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Tempo

95 BPM · Andantemedian of 266 analyses · 95–95 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A♭ major4 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
266people who ran the extractor
One beat
631.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.59dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.979Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.221Essentia's danceability, 0–3

Source: AcousticBrainz, dump of 2022-06-23 (CC0) · MusicBrainz core data, 2026-09-17 (CC0) · how each number is measured. Measured up to 23.06.2022 — AcousticBrainz stopped collecting in 2022, so nothing released after that date is here.

What the numbers say

266 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in A flat major, a key signature of 4 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 266 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 95 BPM one beat lasts 631.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 157.9 ms and a dotted eighth 473.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 47.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 190. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — the sort of drift a tape machine or a slightly different mastering leaves behind. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 2.59 dB: that is how far the level wanders from its own average, so a small number means a loud, flat master and a large one means a recording that still breathes. Its average loudness is 0.979 on Essentia's 0-to-1 scale, which is not decibels and is not comparable to a streaming service's number.

10 other recordings here are in A flat major; the ones listed below are the closest in tempo.

Beats per bar are not in this dataset. AcousticBrainz's analysis reports a tempo, a key and a loudness, and no time signature at all, so this page does not print one — a 4/4 here would be a guess dressed as a measurement.

Keys that fit with A♭ major

Each of these differs from A♭ major by at most one accidental, or shares its tonic. That is the whole of what a mixing wheel encodes; here the relations are named instead of numbered.

Delay times at 95 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42526.30.4
Half note21263.20.79
Dotted quarter1.5947.41.06
Quarter note (one beat)1631.61.58
Quarter triplet0.667421.12.38
Dotted eighth0.75473.72.11
Eighth note0.5315.83.17
Eighth triplet0.333210.54.75
Dotted sixteenth0.375236.84.22
Sixteenth note0.25157.96.33
Sixteenth triplet0.167105.39.5
Thirty-second note0.12578.912.67

Half time 47.5 BPM · double time 190 BPM. Every row is one beat (631.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Jesus He Knows MeGenesisA♭ major95BPM
  2. PerfectEd SheeranA♭ major95BPM
  3. LuckyBritney SpearsA♭ major95BPM
  4. Love Me Like You DoEllie GouldingA♭ major95BPM
  5. CloserThe Chainsmokers ft. HalseyA♭ major95BPM
  6. All Through the NightCyndi LauperA♭ major95BPM
  7. Armatage ShanksGreen DayA♭ major95BPM
  8. Magic BusThe WhoA♭ major95BPM
  9. ReflectionChristina AguileraA♭ major96BPM
  10. Green Green Grass of HomeTom JonesA♭ major96BPM

Recordings in A flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 95 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A flat majorAll songs at 95 BPMA♭ major at 90–99 BPMAdele

MusicBrainz collapses 5 recording ids into this one. Recording id ade2f0f3-39bf-46ad-a44d-7fc4a8069db7.