TempoPeek

Bruno Mars · Doo-Wops & Hooligans

Talking to the Moon

Talking to the Moon is in E major at 145.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

146 BPM · Allegromedian of 182 analyses · 144.8–146 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
182people who ran the extractor
One beat
411.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440Hz · 0 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.9dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.684Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.064Essentia'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

182 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 182 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 144.8 to 146 BPM.

At 145.8 BPM one beat lasts 411.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 102.9 ms and a dotted eighth 308.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 72.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 291.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440 Hz, which is 0 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 4.9 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 0.684 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 E 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 E major

Each of these differs from E 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 146 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41646.10.61
Half note28231.22
Dotted quarter1.5617.31.62
Quarter note (one beat)1411.52.43
Quarter triplet0.667274.33.65
Dotted eighth0.75308.63.24
Eighth note0.5205.84.86
Eighth triplet0.333137.27.29
Dotted sixteenth0.375154.36.48
Sixteenth note0.25102.99.72
Sixteenth triplet0.16768.614.58
Thirty-second note0.12551.419.44

Half time 72.9 BPM · double time 291.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (411.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. EverglowColdplayE major146BPM
  2. Can’t Get There From HereR.E.M.E major145BPM
  3. Good Morning Little SchoolgirlThe YardbirdsE major146BPM
  4. China GroveThe Doobie BrothersE major145BPM
  5. People Like MeHanoi RocksE major145BPM
  6. The Ballad of Curtis LoewLynyrd SkynyrdE major147BPM
  7. Mama’s BoyRamonesE major147BPM
  8. Born to RunBruce SpringsteenE major147BPM
  9. Worry RockGreen DayE major144BPM
  10. Don’t Tell MeAvril LavigneE major144BPM

Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 146 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E majorAll songs at 146 BPME major at 140–149 BPMBruno Mars

MusicBrainz collapses 5 recording ids into this one. Recording id 051205ad-ef0c-4b08-89ef-1fe0a0425d08.