Céline Dion · A New Day Has Come

Nature Boy

Nature Boy is in C minor at 106.1 beats per minute.

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Tempo

106 BPM · Andantemedian of 151 analyses · 106.1–152.1 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C minor3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
151people who ran the extractor
One beat
565.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441Hz · +4 cents from A 440
Dynamics
6.48dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.105Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.905Essentia'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

151 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in C minor, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 151 readings; 75% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 106.1 to 152.1 BPM.

At 106.1 BPM one beat lasts 565.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 141.4 ms and a dotted eighth 424.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 53.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 212.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441 Hz, which is 4 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 6.48 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 0.105 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 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 C minor

Each of these differs from C 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 106 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note422620.44
Half note211310.88
Dotted quarter1.5848.31.18
Quarter note (one beat)1565.51.77
Quarter triplet0.6673772.65
Dotted eighth0.75424.12.36
Eighth note0.5282.83.54
Eighth triplet0.333188.55.31
Dotted sixteenth0.375212.14.72
Sixteenth note0.25141.47.07
Sixteenth triplet0.16794.310.61
Thirty-second note0.12570.714.15

Half time 53.1 BPM · double time 212.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (565.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. Nature BoyMiles DavisG minor129BPM

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. I Want YouSavage GardenC minor106BPM
  2. Chim Chim Cher‐eeDick Van Dyke, Julie Andrews, Karen Dotrice & Matthew GarberC minor106BPM
  3. Whammy KissThe B‐52sC minor107BPM
  4. Rolling in the DeepAdeleC minor105BPM
  5. Shining StarBackstreet BoysC minor105BPM
  6. TrampOtis Redding & Carla ThomasC minor107BPM
  7. The Day Before You CameABBAC minor108BPM
  8. I’m Movin’ OnRay CharlesC minor108BPM
  9. HypnotizedFleetwood MacC minor108BPM
  10. Intro (Back to Basics)Christina AguileraC minor108BPM

Recordings in C minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 106 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C minorAll songs at 106 BPMC minor at 100–109 BPMCéline Dion

MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id 20730352-a070-49e2-8180-9afe04f74d89.