TempoPeek

Amy Winehouse · Back to Black

Cupid

Cupid is in G major at 87.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

88 BPM · Andantemedian of 241 analyses · 87.8–145.4 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
62%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
241people who ran the extractor
One beat
682.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.05dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.955Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.335Essentia'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

241 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 62% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 241 readings; 60% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 87.8 to 145.4 BPM.

At 87.9 BPM one beat lasts 682.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 170.6 ms and a dotted eighth 511.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 44 BPM, counted twice as fast 175.8. 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 4.05 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 0.955 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 88 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42730.40.37
Half note21365.20.73
Dotted quarter1.51023.90.98
Quarter note (one beat)1682.61.47
Quarter triplet0.667455.12.2
Dotted eighth0.75511.91.95
Eighth note0.5341.32.93
Eighth triplet0.333227.54.4
Dotted sixteenth0.3752563.91
Sixteenth note0.25170.65.86
Sixteenth triplet0.167113.88.79
Thirty-second note0.12585.311.72

Half time 44 BPM · double time 175.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (682.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. CupidSam CookeG major121BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. I Take What I WantAretha FranklinG major88BPM
  2. Can’t Find My Way HomeBlind FaithG major88BPM
  3. Next YearFoo FightersG major88BPM
  4. Maggie’s FarmBob DylanG major88BPM
  5. You Like Me Too MuchThe BeatlesG major88BPM
  6. ContradictionApparatG major89BPM
  7. Lost!ColdplayG major87BPM
  8. Wot’s… Uh the DealPink FloydG major89BPM
  9. Versace on the FloorBruno MarsG major87BPM
  10. Need Someone to HoldCreedence Clearwater RevivalG major89BPM

Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 88 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G majorAll songs at 88 BPMG major at 80–89 BPMAmy Winehouse

MusicBrainz collapses 11 recording ids into this one. Recording id 7b9b47f1-91a5-490b-9e34-4c7a039369e9.