TempoPeek

Aretha Franklin · Aretha Now

You’re a Sweet Sweet Man

You’re a Sweet Sweet Man is in A major at 105.5 beats per minute.

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Tempo

106 BPM · Andantemedian of 220 analyses · 105.4–105.7 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
36%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
220people who ran the extractor
One beat
568.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
436.7Hz · -13 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.46dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.701Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.024Essentia'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

220 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Fewer than half of them — 36% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 220 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 105.5 BPM one beat lasts 568.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 142.2 ms and a dotted eighth 426.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 52.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 211. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 436.7 Hz, which is 13 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 5.46 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 0.701 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 A 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 A major

Each of these differs from A 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 106 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42274.90.44
Half note21137.40.88
Dotted quarter1.5853.11.17
Quarter note (one beat)1568.71.76
Quarter triplet0.667379.12.64
Dotted eighth0.75426.52.34
Eighth note0.5284.43.52
Eighth triplet0.333189.65.28
Dotted sixteenth0.375213.34.69
Sixteenth note0.25142.27.03
Sixteenth triplet0.16794.810.55
Thirty-second note0.12571.114.07

Half time 52.8 BPM · double time 211 BPM. Every row is one beat (568.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. ThirteenJohnny CashA major106BPM
  2. Muttblink‐182A major105BPM
  3. Shake Me DownCage the ElephantA major106BPM
  4. Taste the PainRed Hot Chili PeppersA major105BPM
  5. Only a Northern SongThe BeatlesA major106BPM
  6. Good Morning Judge10ccA major106BPM
  7. Only YouYazooA major106BPM
  8. Stand by MeJohn LennonA major105BPM
  9. Magic SpellsCrystal CastlesA major105BPM
  10. MMMBopHansonA major105BPM

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 106 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A majorAll songs at 106 BPMA major at 100–109 BPMAretha Franklin

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id aa9111a7-f6b0-4646-b05a-5227390151ad.