TempoPeek

Aretha Franklin · Young, Gifted and Black

Oh Me Oh My (I’m a Fool for You Baby)

Oh Me Oh My (I’m a Fool for You Baby) is in B flat major at 120 beats per minute.

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Tempo

120 BPM · Allegromedian of 226 analyses · 117.9–120 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B♭ major2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
226people who ran the extractor
One beat
500milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
437.5Hz · -10 cents from A 440
Dynamics
7.28dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.158Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.022Essentia'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

226 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in B flat major, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 226 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 117.9 to 120 BPM.

At 120 BPM one beat lasts 500 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 125 ms and a dotted eighth 375 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 60 BPM, counted twice as fast 240. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437.5 Hz, which is 10 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 7.28 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 0.158 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 B flat 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 B♭ major

Each of these differs from B♭ 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 120 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note420000.5
Half note210001
Dotted quarter1.57501.33
Quarter note (one beat)15002
Quarter triplet0.667333.33
Dotted eighth0.753752.67
Eighth note0.52504
Eighth triplet0.333166.76
Dotted sixteenth0.375187.55.33
Sixteenth note0.251258
Sixteenth triplet0.16783.312
Thirty-second note0.12562.516

Half time 60 BPM · double time 240 BPM. Every row is one beat (500 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Blurred LinesRobin Thicke feat. T.I. & Pharrell WilliamsB♭ major120BPM
  2. Wrecking BallMiley CyrusB♭ major120BPM
  3. MindfieldsProdigyB♭ major120BPM
  4. Teenage DreamKaty PerryB♭ major120BPM
  5. Viva Las VegasZZ TopB♭ major120BPM
  6. Youngblood5 Seconds of SummerB♭ major120BPM
  7. Tired of Being SorryEnrique IglesiasB♭ major120BPM
  8. Black BeautyLana Del ReyB♭ major120BPM
  9. Long Time Comin’Bruce SpringsteenB♭ major120BPM
  10. That’s It – I Quit – I’m Movin’ OnSam CookeB♭ major120BPM

Recordings in B flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 120 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B flat majorAll songs at 120 BPMB♭ major at 120–129 BPMAretha Franklin

MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id 08c4660f-8ae1-46e4-ae18-882a866da96a.