Bryan Adams · Reckless
One Night Love Affair
One Night Love Affair is in E major at 124.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
125 BPM · Allegromedian of 204 analyses · 124.3–124.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 86%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 204people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 481.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 442.8Hz · +11 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.59dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.827Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.077Essentia'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
204 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 86% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 204 readings; 94% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 124.6 BPM one beat lasts 481.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 120.4 ms and a dotted eighth 361.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 62.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 249.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442.8 Hz, which is 11 cents above 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 4.59 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 0.827 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 125 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1926.2 | 0.52 |
| Half note | 2 | 963.1 | 1.04 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 722.3 | 1.38 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 481.5 | 2.08 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 321 | 3.12 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 361.2 | 2.77 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 240.8 | 4.15 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 160.5 | 6.23 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 180.6 | 5.54 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 120.4 | 8.31 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 80.3 | 12.46 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 60.2 | 16.61 |
Half time 62.3 BPM · double time 249.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (481.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Shiny Happy PeopleR.E.M.E major125BPM
- I Feel for YouChaka KhanE major125BPM
- The Golden AgeBeckE major124BPM
- Hear MeImagine DragonsE major125BPM
- Little BirdAnnie LennoxE major125BPM
- Everybody’s Talkin’NilssonE major124BPM
- Do You Want to Know a SecretThe BeatlesE major124BPM
- Run, Baby, RunSheryl CrowE major124BPM
- Sheila Take a BowThe SmithsE major125BPM
- Spoilin’ for a FightAC/DCE major124BPM
Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 125 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E majorAll songs at 125 BPME major at 120–129 BPMBryan Adams
MusicBrainz collapses 9 recording ids into this one. Recording id a7e15f46-7996-415c-b9f3-c441b0bb6e41.