TempoPeek

Calvin Harris feat. Ellie Goulding · Motion

Outside

Outside is in D minor at 128.1 beats per minute.

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Tempo

128 BPM · Allegromedian of 248 analyses · 128–128.1 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
93%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
248people who ran the extractor
One beat
468.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.5Hz · +2 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.73dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.863Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.011Essentia'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

248 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 93% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 248 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 128.1 BPM one beat lasts 468.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 117.1 ms and a dotted eighth 351.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 64.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 256.2. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 3.73 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 0.863 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 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 D minor

Each of these differs from D 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 128 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41873.50.53
Half note2936.81.07
Dotted quarter1.5702.61.42
Quarter note (one beat)1468.42.13
Quarter triplet0.667312.33.2
Dotted eighth0.75351.32.85
Eighth note0.5234.24.27
Eighth triplet0.333156.16.41
Dotted sixteenth0.375175.65.69
Sixteenth note0.25117.18.54
Sixteenth triplet0.16778.112.81
Thirty-second note0.12558.517.08

Half time 64.1 BPM · double time 256.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (468.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. OutsideFoo FightersA minor111BPM

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. Ich willRammsteinD minor128BPM
  2. UprisingMuseD minor128BPM
  3. Channel 42deadmau5 + Wolfgang GartnerD minor128BPM
  4. Stockholm SyndromeMuseD minor128BPM
  5. ReptileNine Inch NailsD minor128BPM
  6. An Echo, a StainBjörkD minor128BPM
  7. Smokin’ in the Boys RoomBrownsville StationD minor129BPM
  8. Spirit in the SkyNorman GreenbaumD minor129BPM
  9. Even Better Than the Real ThingU2D minor129BPM
  10. No DancingElvis CostelloD minor129BPM

Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 128 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D minorAll songs at 128 BPMD minor at 120–129 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 9 recording ids into this one. Recording id c6d80877-8f6b-4a35-a1b8-9191313c3331.