Céline Dion · Taking Chances

That’s the Way It Is

That’s the Way It Is is in A major at 92.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

93 BPM · Andantemedian of 309 analyses · 92.9–93 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
309people who ran the extractor
One beat
645.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.8Hz · +3 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.18dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.589Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.121Essentia'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

309 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 309 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 92.9 BPM one beat lasts 645.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 161.5 ms and a dotted eighth 484.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 46.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 185.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.8 Hz, which is 3 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 5.18 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 A 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 A major

Each of these differs from A 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 93 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42583.40.39
Half note21291.70.77
Dotted quarter1.5968.81.03
Quarter note (one beat)1645.91.55
Quarter triplet0.667430.62.32
Dotted eighth0.75484.42.06
Eighth note0.5322.93.1
Eighth triplet0.333215.34.65
Dotted sixteenth0.375242.24.13
Sixteenth note0.25161.56.19
Sixteenth triplet0.167107.69.29
Thirty-second note0.12580.712.39

Half time 46.5 BPM · double time 185.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (645.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. AirplanesB.o.B feat. Hayley Williams of ParamoreA major93BPM
  2. Somebody Up There Likes MeDavid BowieA major93BPM
  3. I Want You to Want MeCheap TrickA major93BPM
  4. Little Red RoosterSam CookeA major93BPM
  5. AfricaTotoA major93BPM
  6. Cretin HopRamonesA major93BPM
  7. Back in BlackAC/DCA major93BPM
  8. Teenage LobotomyRamonesA major93BPM
  9. Out on the TilesLed ZeppelinA major93BPM
  10. No Way BackFoo FightersA major93BPM

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 93 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A majorAll songs at 93 BPMA major at 90–99 BPMCéline Dion

MusicBrainz collapses 6 recording ids into this one. Recording id 94441302-ec48-43cb-894e-359772bbf001.