Céline Dion · These Are Special Times
The Magic of Christmas Day (God Bless Us Everyone)
The Magic of Christmas Day (God Bless Us Everyone) is in G major at 97 beats per minute.
Tempo
97 BPM · Andantemedian of 164 analyses · 97–97 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 164people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 618.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.71dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.496Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.015Essentia'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
164 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 164 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 97 BPM one beat lasts 618.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 154.6 ms and a dotted eighth 463.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 48.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 194. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.3 Hz, which is 1 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 4.71 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 0.496 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 G 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 G major
Each of these differs from G 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 97 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2474.2 | 0.4 |
| Half note | 2 | 1237.1 | 0.81 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 927.8 | 1.08 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 618.6 | 1.62 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 412.4 | 2.43 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 463.9 | 2.16 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 309.3 | 3.23 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 206.2 | 4.85 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 232 | 4.31 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 154.6 | 6.47 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 103.1 | 9.7 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 77.3 | 12.93 |
Half time 48.5 BPM · double time 194 BPM. Every row is one beat (618.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Black Diamond BayBob DylanG major97BPM
- Spinning WheelBlood, Sweat & TearsG major97BPM
- Don’t Cross the RiverAmericaG major97BPM
- I’ll Cry InsteadThe BeatlesG major97BPM
- The Man’s Too StrongDire StraitsG major98BPM
- Hotel YorbaThe White StripesG major98BPM
- You Can’t Hurry LovePhil CollinsG major98BPM
- BackstreetsBruce SpringsteenG major98BPM
- If This Is ItHuey Lewis and the NewsG major98BPM
- Sweet Home AlabamaLynyrd SkynyrdG major98BPM
Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 97 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G majorAll songs at 97 BPMG major at 90–99 BPMCéline Dion
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 0aacf835-51c9-4e2b-931f-000f9b21e38a.