TempoPeek

Bryan Adams · Reckless

Somebody

Somebody is in C major at 97.6 beats per minute.

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Tempo

98 BPM · Andantemedian of 197 analyses · 97.5–97.6 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
96%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
197people who ran the extractor
One beat
614.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.65dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.911Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.143Essentia'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

197 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 197 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 97.6 BPM one beat lasts 614.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 153.7 ms and a dotted eighth 461.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 48.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 195.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 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 3.65 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 0.911 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 C 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 C major

Each of these differs from C 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 98 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note424590.41
Half note21229.50.81
Dotted quarter1.5922.11.08
Quarter note (one beat)1614.81.63
Quarter triplet0.667409.82.44
Dotted eighth0.75461.12.17
Eighth note0.5307.43.25
Eighth triplet0.333204.94.88
Dotted sixteenth0.375230.54.34
Sixteenth note0.25153.76.51
Sixteenth triplet0.167102.59.76
Thirty-second note0.12576.813.01

Half time 48.8 BPM · double time 195.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (614.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. SomebodyDepeche ModeG major155BPM

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. We’re Going to Be FriendsThe White StripesC major98BPM
  2. The Man Comes AroundJohnny CashC major97BPM
  3. PrettyThe CranberriesC major97BPM
  4. Man Overboardblink‐182C major97BPM
  5. Softly and TenderlyJohnny CashC major97BPM
  6. Saved by the BellRobin GibbC major97BPM
  7. Hot Fun in the SummertimeSly & the Family StoneC major97BPM
  8. Kid CharlemagneSteely DanC major97BPM
  9. Lover of MineBeach HouseC major97BPM
  10. Rich GirlGwen Stefani feat. EveC major98BPM

Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 98 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C majorAll songs at 98 BPMC major at 90–99 BPMBryan Adams

MusicBrainz collapses 43 recording ids into this one. Recording id 3af8bb4c-eea4-4a46-86ba-27410871c7c1.