Avril Lavigne · The Best Damn Thing
The Best Damn Thing
The Best Damn Thing is in G major at 82.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
83 BPM · Andantemedian of 128 analyses · 82.4–82.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 97%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 128people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 727.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 439Hz · -4 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.59dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.944Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.167Essentia'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
128 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 128 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 82.5 BPM one beat lasts 727.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 181.8 ms and a dotted eighth 545.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 41.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 165. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439 Hz, which is 4 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 2.59 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 0.944 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 G 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 G major
Each of these differs from G 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 83 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2909.1 | 0.34 |
| Half note | 2 | 1454.5 | 0.69 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1090.9 | 0.92 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 727.3 | 1.38 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 484.8 | 2.06 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 545.5 | 1.83 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 363.6 | 2.75 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 242.4 | 4.13 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 272.7 | 3.67 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 181.8 | 5.5 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 121.2 | 8.25 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 90.9 | 11 |
Half time 41.3 BPM · double time 165 BPM. Every row is one beat (727.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Here, There and EverywhereThe BeatlesG major83BPM
- Young AmericansDavid BowieG major84BPM
- WordsBee GeesG major81BPM
- Red 2 GoDanny BrownG major84BPM
- Winter WindsMumford & SonsG major84BPM
- Stable SongDeath Cab for CutieG major84BPM
- Sullivan StreetCounting CrowsG major81BPM
- HummerSmashing PumpkinsG major84BPM
- End of a CenturyBlurG major80BPM
- RecoverCHVRCHESG major85BPM
Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 83 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G majorAll songs at 83 BPMG major at 80–89 BPMAvril Lavigne
MusicBrainz collapses 4 recording ids into this one. Recording id 661392ac-0cbb-4002-86cf-b365162a9e7c.