Aretha Franklin · Lady Soul
Money Won’t Change You
Money Won’t Change You is in F major at 122.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
123 BPM · Allegromedian of 224 analyses · 122.3–122.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 97%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 224people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 489.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 437Hz · -12 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.37dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.836Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.103Essentia'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
224 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 224 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 122.5 BPM one beat lasts 489.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 122.4 ms and a dotted eighth 367.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 61.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 245. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437 Hz, which is 12 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 4.37 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 0.836 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 123 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1959.2 | 0.51 |
| Half note | 2 | 979.6 | 1.02 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 734.7 | 1.36 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 489.8 | 2.04 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 326.5 | 3.06 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 367.3 | 2.72 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 244.9 | 4.08 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 163.3 | 6.13 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 183.7 | 5.44 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 122.4 | 8.17 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 81.6 | 12.25 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 61.2 | 16.33 |
Half time 61.3 BPM · double time 245 BPM. Every row is one beat (489.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Start Me UpThe Rolling StonesF major123BPM
- When Lights Are LowMiles Davis QuartetF major123BPM
- Don’t PanicColdplayF major122BPM
- DesperadoAlice CooperF major122BPM
- Tea for OneLed ZeppelinF major123BPM
- Till There Was YouThe BeatlesF major122BPM
- The Lion Sleeps TonightThe TokensF major122BPM
- Long GoneBryan AdamsF major123BPM
- Banana Boat Song (Day‐O)Harry BelafonteF major123BPM
- AqualungJethro TullF major123BPM
Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 123 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F majorAll songs at 123 BPMF major at 120–129 BPMAretha Franklin
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id c652db9d-16a9-4f96-8710-e711bcad7ecf.