Bee Gees · Horizontal
World
World is in D major at 87.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
87 BPM · Andantemedian of 133 analyses · 85.1–88.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 133people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 688.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 437.7Hz · -9 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.26dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.77Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.911Essentia'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
133 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 133 readings; 70% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 85.1 to 88.1 BPM.
At 87.2 BPM one beat lasts 688.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 172 ms and a dotted eighth 516.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 43.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 174.4. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437.7 Hz, which is 9 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 4.26 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 0.77 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 D 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 D major
Each of these differs from D 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 87 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2752.3 | 0.36 |
| Half note | 2 | 1376.1 | 0.73 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1032.1 | 0.97 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 688.1 | 1.45 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 458.7 | 2.18 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 516.1 | 1.94 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 344 | 2.91 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 229.4 | 4.36 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 258 | 3.88 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 172 | 5.81 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 114.7 | 8.72 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 86 | 11.63 |
Half time 43.6 BPM · double time 174.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (688.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Detour Thru Your MindThe B‐52sD major87BPM
- WinningSantanaD major86BPM
- The Heart of the MatterDon HenleyD major88BPM
- Run for Your LifeThe BeatlesD major88BPM
- Pictures of YouThe CureD major86BPM
- The Ghost of Tom JoadBruce SpringsteenD major89BPM
- HarvestNeil YoungD major86BPM
- SimoriahAerosmithD major86BPM
- The OceanLed ZeppelinD major89BPM
- Rain, Tax (It’s Inevitable)Céline DionD major89BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 87 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 87 BPMD major at 80–89 BPMBee Gees
MusicBrainz collapses 19 recording ids into this one. Recording id ad8d2930-4db0-4ef2-ac29-54f2065d7b69.