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Candyman
Candyman is in G sharp minor at 86.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
87 BPM · Andantemedian of 342 analyses · 86.5–86.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G♯ minor5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 71%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 342people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 693.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.1dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.886Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.202Essentia'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
342 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 71% — put it in G sharp minor, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 342 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 86.5 BPM one beat lasts 693.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 173.4 ms and a dotted eighth 520.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 43.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 173. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — the sort of drift a tape machine or a slightly different mastering leaves behind. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 4.1 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 0.886 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 sharp 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 G♯ minor
Each of these differs from G♯ 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 87 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2774.6 | 0.36 |
| Half note | 2 | 1387.3 | 0.72 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1040.5 | 0.96 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 693.6 | 1.44 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 462.4 | 2.16 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 520.2 | 1.92 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 346.8 | 2.88 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 231.2 | 4.33 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 260.1 | 3.84 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 173.4 | 5.77 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 115.6 | 8.65 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 86.7 | 11.53 |
Half time 43.3 BPM · double time 173 BPM. Every row is one beat (693.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Mad About YouStingG♯ minor85BPM
- Keep On Chooglin’Creedence Clearwater RevivalG♯ minor84BPM
- Me Against the World2Pac featuring DramacydalG♯ minor92BPM
- all the good girls go to hellBillie EilishG♯ minor93BPM
- No ScrubsTLCG♯ minor93BPM
- 21 Questions50 Cent feat. Nate DoggG♯ minor93BPM
- Lake Shore DriveAliotta Haynes JeremiahG♯ minor95BPM
- Neon KnightsBlack SabbathG♯ minor96BPM
- Can I Kick It?A Tribe Called QuestG♯ minor97BPM
- Cry Me a RiverJustin TimberlakeG♯ minor74BPM
Recordings in G sharp minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 87 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G sharp minorAll songs at 87 BPMChristina Aguilera
MusicBrainz collapses 6 recording ids into this one. Recording id 74e827ba-679e-4d72-b458-7dc31dbd6632.