TempoPeek

Christina Aguilera · Christina Aguilera

What a Girl Wants

What a Girl Wants is in F major at 142.2 beats per minute.

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Tempo

142 BPM · Allegromedian of 129 analyses · 140.4–142.2 across the middle eight tenths
Key
F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
71%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
129people who ran the extractor
One beat
421.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.33dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.9Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.356Essentia'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

129 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 71% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 129 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 140.4 to 142.2 BPM.

At 142.2 BPM one beat lasts 421.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 105.5 ms and a dotted eighth 316.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 71.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 284.4. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 4.33 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 0.9 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 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 142 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41687.80.59
Half note2843.91.19
Dotted quarter1.5632.91.58
Quarter note (one beat)1421.92.37
Quarter triplet0.667281.33.56
Dotted eighth0.75316.53.16
Eighth note0.52114.74
Eighth triplet0.333140.67.11
Dotted sixteenth0.375158.26.32
Sixteenth note0.25105.59.48
Sixteenth triplet0.16770.314.22
Thirty-second note0.12552.718.96

Half time 71.1 BPM · double time 284.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (421.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. KimEminemF major142BPM
  2. Where Is Your HeartKelly ClarksonF major142BPM
  3. A Hazy Shade of WinterSimon & GarfunkelF major142BPM
  4. Ship to WreckFlorence + the MachineF major142BPM
  5. The (After) Life of the PartyFall Out BoyF major142BPM
  6. Blinded by the LightManfred Mann’s Earth BandF major142BPM
  7. Real LoveCutty Ranks feat. Beres HammondF major142BPM
  8. SliverNirvanaF major143BPM
  9. We Are the DeadDavid BowieF major143BPM
  10. What It TakesAerosmithF major143BPM

Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 142 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F majorAll songs at 142 BPMF major at 140–149 BPMChristina Aguilera

MusicBrainz collapses 14 recording ids into this one. Recording id 6002e85b-46e0-453c-9ef6-12fb383fabfb.