Culture Club · Colour by Numbers
Victims
Victims is in B flat major at 126.1 beats per minute.
Tempo
126 BPM · Allegromedian of 197 analyses · 126–128 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B♭ major2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 197people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 475.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.89dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.256Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.06Essentia'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
197 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in B flat major, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 197 readings; 94% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 126 to 128 BPM.
At 126.1 BPM one beat lasts 475.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 119 ms and a dotted eighth 356.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 63.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 252.2. 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 5.89 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 0.256 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 B flat 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 B♭ major
Each of these differs from B♭ 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 126 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1903.3 | 0.53 |
| Half note | 2 | 951.6 | 1.05 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 713.7 | 1.4 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 475.8 | 2.1 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 317.2 | 3.15 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 356.9 | 2.8 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 237.9 | 4.2 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 158.6 | 6.31 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 178.4 | 5.6 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 119 | 8.41 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 79.3 | 12.61 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 59.5 | 16.81 |
Half time 63.1 BPM · double time 252.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (475.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Cocoa Butter KissesChance the Rapper feat. Vic Mensa & TwistaB♭ major126BPM
- Call the ManCéline DionB♭ major126BPM
- Untrust UsCrystal CastlesB♭ major126BPM
- Call On MeEric PrydzB♭ major126BPM
- Philadelphia FreedomElton JohnB♭ major126BPM
- Waiting for a TrainJohnny CashB♭ major126BPM
- That’ll Be the DayLinda RonstadtB♭ major126BPM
- You Make Loving FunFleetwood MacB♭ major127BPM
- You Make Loving FunFleetwood HazelB♭ major127BPM
- ViennaBilly JoelB♭ major125BPM
Recordings in B flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 126 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B flat majorAll songs at 126 BPMB♭ major at 120–129 BPMCulture Club
MusicBrainz collapses 14 recording ids into this one. Recording id b4119270-856e-4c78-82e5-4731418d8132.