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If I Ain’t Got You

If I Ain’t Got You is in G major at 118.2 beats per minute.

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Tempo

118 BPM · Moderatomedian of 218 analyses · 118.1–118.3 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
218people who ran the extractor
One beat
507.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
6.51dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.563Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.128Essentia'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

218 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 218 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 118.2 BPM one beat lasts 507.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 126.9 ms and a dotted eighth 380.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 59.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 236.4. A score would mark that Moderato, 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 6.51 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 0.563 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 G 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 G major

Each of these differs from G 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 118 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42030.50.49
Half note21015.20.99
Dotted quarter1.5761.41.31
Quarter note (one beat)1507.61.97
Quarter triplet0.667338.42.96
Dotted eighth0.75380.72.63
Eighth note0.5253.83.94
Eighth triplet0.333169.25.91
Dotted sixteenth0.375190.45.25
Sixteenth note0.25126.97.88
Sixteenth triplet0.16784.611.82
Thirty-second note0.12563.515.76

Half time 59.1 BPM · double time 236.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (507.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Call MeAretha FranklinG major118BPM
  2. RespectOtis ReddingG major118BPM
  3. Prière païenneCéline DionG major118BPM
  4. A WhisperColdplayG major118BPM
  5. CarusoAndrea BocelliG major118BPM
  6. Year of the CatAl StewartG major118BPM
  7. The Boy with the Thorn in His SideThe SmithsG major119BPM
  8. Sweet Painted LadyElton JohnG major118BPM
  9. ShelaAerosmithG major118BPM
  10. The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is YouBryan AdamsG major119BPM

Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 118 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G majorAll songs at 118 BPMG major at 110–119 BPMAlicia Keys

MusicBrainz collapses 29 recording ids into this one. Recording id db8ba298-de10-4842-9ae3-7184b33b7eeb.