TempoPeek

Aretha Franklin · Spirit in the Dark

One Way Ticket

One Way Ticket is in F major at 80.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

81 BPM · Andantemedian of 150 analyses · 80.8–81 across the middle eight tenths
Key
F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
150people who ran the extractor
One beat
741.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
442.5Hz · +10 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.43dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.652Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.062Essentia'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

150 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 150 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 80.9 BPM one beat lasts 741.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 185.4 ms and a dotted eighth 556.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 40.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 161.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442.5 Hz, which is 10 cents above 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 5.43 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 0.652 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 81 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42966.60.34
Half note21483.30.67
Dotted quarter1.51112.50.9
Quarter note (one beat)1741.71.35
Quarter triplet0.667494.42.02
Dotted eighth0.75556.21.8
Eighth note0.5370.82.7
Eighth triplet0.333247.24.05
Dotted sixteenth0.375278.13.6
Sixteenth note0.25185.45.39
Sixteenth triplet0.167123.68.09
Thirty-second note0.12592.710.79

Half time 40.5 BPM · double time 161.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (741.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. ViennaUltravoxF major81BPM
  2. Many Men (Wish Death)50 CentF major81BPM
  3. On & OnErykah BaduF major80BPM
  4. What About LoveHeartF major80BPM
  5. Rimshot (outro)Erykah BaduF major80BPM
  6. RehabRihannaF major80BPM
  7. Where Are We Now?David BowieF major80BPM
  8. RendezvousCraig DavidF major80BPM
  9. End GameTaylor Swift feat. Ed Sheeran & FutureF major80BPM
  10. I’m Supposed to Die Tonight50 CentF major80BPM

Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 81 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F majorAll songs at 81 BPMF major at 80–89 BPMAretha Franklin

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 59d44958-d63c-4ce5-84e2-6c45304c26f7.