TempoPeek

Céline Dion · Taking Chances

Alone

Alone is in F sharp major at 87.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

88 BPM · Andantemedian of 202 analyses · 87.9–87.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
F♯ major6 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
202people who ran the extractor
One beat
682.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.5Hz · +2 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.36dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.589Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.963Essentia'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

202 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in F sharp major, a key signature of 6 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 202 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 87.9 BPM one beat lasts 682.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 170.6 ms and a dotted eighth 511.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 44 BPM, counted twice as fast 175.8. A score would mark that Andante, 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 4.36 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 0.589 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 F sharp 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 F♯ major

Each of these differs from F♯ 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 88 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42730.40.37
Half note21365.20.73
Dotted quarter1.51023.90.98
Quarter note (one beat)1682.61.47
Quarter triplet0.667455.12.2
Dotted eighth0.75511.91.95
Eighth note0.5341.32.93
Eighth triplet0.333227.54.4
Dotted sixteenth0.3752563.91
Sixteenth note0.25170.65.86
Sixteenth triplet0.167113.88.79
Thirty-second note0.12585.311.72

Half time 44 BPM · double time 175.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (682.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. AloneHeartD♭ major87BPM

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. Murder InkDr. Dre featuring Hittman & Ms. RoqF♯ major88BPM
  2. The Sound of SettlingDeath Cab for CutieF♯ major88BPM
  3. The Boys of SummerDon HenleyF♯ major89BPM
  4. One Fine DayThe ChiffonsF♯ major89BPM
  5. At LastCéline DionF♯ major89BPM
  6. ChandelierSiaF♯ major87BPM
  7. Scared of LonelyBeyoncéF♯ major87BPM
  8. Wild Honey PieThe BeatlesF♯ major89BPM
  9. ShutdownApparatF♯ major90BPM
  10. BratGreen DayF♯ major90BPM

Recordings in F sharp major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 88 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F sharp majorAll songs at 88 BPMF♯ major at 80–89 BPMCéline Dion

MusicBrainz collapses 7 recording ids into this one. Recording id d7835997-f4ed-4efb-8acf-352c8f50c403.