Annie Lennox · Diva
Why
Why is in C major at 90.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
91 BPM · Andantemedian of 288 analyses · 90.8–91 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 97%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 288people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 660.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.46dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.737Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.995Essentia'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
288 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 288 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 90.8 BPM one beat lasts 660.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 165.2 ms and a dotted eighth 495.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 45.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 181.6. 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 3.46 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 0.737 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 C 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 C major
Each of these differs from C 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 91 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2643.2 | 0.38 |
| Half note | 2 | 1321.6 | 0.76 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 991.2 | 1.01 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 660.8 | 1.51 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 440.5 | 2.27 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 495.6 | 2.02 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 330.4 | 3.03 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 220.3 | 4.54 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 247.8 | 4.04 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 165.2 | 6.05 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 110.1 | 9.08 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 82.6 | 12.11 |
Half time 45.4 BPM · double time 181.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (660.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
The same title by somebody else
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
- Universal TravelerAirC major91BPM
- LoreleiCocteau TwinsC major91BPM
- HurtJohnny CashC major91BPM
- I RobotThe Alan Parsons ProjectC major91BPM
- In the Sweet By and ByJohnny CashC major90BPM
- InvincibleMuseC major91BPM
- Best of My LoveEaglesC major90BPM
- For Your LifeLed ZeppelinC major91BPM
- The StrokeBilly SquierC major91BPM
- The BendsRadioheadC major90BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 91 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 91 BPMC major at 90–99 BPMAnnie Lennox
MusicBrainz collapses 78 recording ids into this one. Recording id 28734584-3a00-4072-8e09-dc5c40c0d50a.