Björk · Debut

Crying

Crying is in A minor at 116.2 beats per minute.

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Tempo

116 BPM · Moderatomedian of 155 analyses · 115.5–116.3 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
95%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
155people who ran the extractor
One beat
516.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.5Hz · +2 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.15dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.849Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.408Essentia'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

155 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 95% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 155 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 116.2 BPM one beat lasts 516.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 129.1 ms and a dotted eighth 387.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 58.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 232.4. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.5 Hz, which is 2 cents above 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 4.15 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 0.849 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 minor; 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 minor

Each of these differs from A minor 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 116 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42065.40.48
Half note21032.70.97
Dotted quarter1.5774.51.29
Quarter note (one beat)1516.41.94
Quarter triplet0.667344.22.91
Dotted eighth0.75387.32.58
Eighth note0.5258.23.87
Eighth triplet0.333172.15.81
Dotted sixteenth0.375193.65.16
Sixteenth note0.25129.17.75
Sixteenth triplet0.16786.111.62
Thirty-second note0.12564.515.49

Half time 58.1 BPM · double time 232.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (516.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. I Will SurviveGloria GaynorA minor116BPM
  2. SmoothSantana featuring Rob ThomasA minor116BPM
  3. New RulesDua LipaA minor116BPM
  4. Come On HomeFranz FerdinandA minor117BPM
  5. When the World Was at War We Kept DancingLana Del ReyA minor116BPM
  6. 25 BucksDanny Brown featuring Purity RingA minor116BPM
  7. Hunting High and Lowa‐haA minor117BPM
  8. She Way OutThe 1975A minor117BPM
  9. Hunting High and Low (remix)a‐haA minor117BPM
  10. Seven DevilsFlorence + the MachineA minor117BPM

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 116 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minorAll songs at 116 BPMA minor at 110–119 BPMBjörk

MusicBrainz collapses 28 recording ids into this one. Recording id ebc57bc2-c7ec-4ac5-97c7-bb8cd84ca9c7.