Aretha Franklin · Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky)
Angel
Angel is in F major at 172.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
172 BPM · Vivacemedian of 280 analyses · 172.3–172.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 64%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 280people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 348.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.03dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.63Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.972Essentia'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
280 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 64% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 280 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 172.3 BPM one beat lasts 348.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 87.1 ms and a dotted eighth 261.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 86.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 344.6. A score would mark that Vivace, 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 5.03 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 0.63 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 F 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 F major
Each of these differs from F 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 172 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1392.9 | 0.72 |
| Half note | 2 | 696.5 | 1.44 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 522.3 | 1.91 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 348.2 | 2.87 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 232.2 | 4.31 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 261.2 | 3.83 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 174.1 | 5.74 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 116.1 | 8.62 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 130.6 | 7.66 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 87.1 | 11.49 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 58 | 17.23 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 43.5 | 22.97 |
Half time 86.2 BPM · double time 344.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (348.2 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
- Mr. Tambourine ManBob DylanF major172BPM
- Sleigh RideNeil DiamondF major172BPM
- Keep On Loving YouREO SpeedwagonF major172BPM
- You Can Leave Your Hat OnJoe CockerF major172BPM
- Sleepy Time TimeCreamF major172BPM
- AspirinApparatF major172BPM
- Once Upon a DreamMary Costa, Bill Shirley and ChorusF major172BPM
- White FlagDidoF major172BPM
- JustRadioheadF major172BPM
- Free Fallin’Tom PettyF major167BPM
Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 172 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F majorAll songs at 172 BPMF major at 170–179 BPMAretha Franklin
MusicBrainz collapses 6 recording ids into this one. Recording id 6aa9b96b-6ef0-4d41-a8a9-fe93e329002b.