TempoPeek

Bruce Springsteen · Born in the U.S.A.

Cover Me

Cover Me is in D major at 120.7 beats per minute.

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Tempo

121 BPM · Allegromedian of 156 analyses · 120.6–120.7 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
90%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
156people who ran the extractor
One beat
497.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
452.6Hz · +49 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.22dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.947Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.281Essentia'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

156 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 90% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 156 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 120.7 BPM one beat lasts 497.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 124.3 ms and a dotted eighth 372.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 60.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 241.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 452.6 Hz, which is 49 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — far enough that playing along at 440 Hz will sound wrong. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 3.22 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 0.947 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 121 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41988.40.5
Half note2994.21.01
Dotted quarter1.5745.71.34
Quarter note (one beat)1497.12.01
Quarter triplet0.667331.43.02
Dotted eighth0.75372.82.68
Eighth note0.5248.64.02
Eighth triplet0.333165.76.04
Dotted sixteenth0.375186.45.36
Sixteenth note0.25124.38.05
Sixteenth triplet0.16782.912.07
Thirty-second note0.12562.116.09

Half time 60.4 BPM · double time 241.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (497.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. Cover MeBjörkA minor136BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Raspberry BeretPrince and The RevolutionD major121BPM
  2. Today I Sing the BluesAretha FranklinD major121BPM
  3. I Don’t Want to Miss a ThingAerosmithD major121BPM
  4. Proud MaryCreedence Clearwater RevivalD major121BPM
  5. The Bells of RhymneyThe ByrdsD major121BPM
  6. Aladdin Sane (1913–1938–197?)David BowieD major120BPM
  7. WarningGreen DayD major121BPM
  8. On Melancholy HillGorillazD major120BPM
  9. Anything GoesAC/DCD major121BPM
  10. Good to Me as I Am to YouAretha FranklinD major120BPM

Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 121 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D majorAll songs at 121 BPMD major at 120–129 BPMBruce Springsteen

MusicBrainz collapses 106 recording ids into this one. Recording id d9d15e0e-3e1d-4ba1-8c1b-628e45035e5e.