Daft Punk · Around the World

Around the World (radio edit)

Around the World (radio edit) is in G major at 121.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

121 BPM · Allegromedian of 127 analyses · 121.3–121.3 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
98%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
127people who ran the extractor
One beat
494.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441.5Hz · +6 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.98dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.951Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.823Essentia'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

127 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 127 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 121.3 BPM one beat lasts 494.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 123.7 ms and a dotted eighth 371 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 60.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 242.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.5 Hz, which is 6 cents above 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 3.98 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 0.951 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 121 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41978.60.51
Half note2989.31.01
Dotted quarter1.57421.35
Quarter note (one beat)1494.62.02
Quarter triplet0.667329.83.03
Dotted eighth0.753712.7
Eighth note0.5247.34.04
Eighth triplet0.333164.96.07
Dotted sixteenth0.375185.55.39
Sixteenth note0.25123.78.09
Sixteenth triplet0.16782.412.13
Thirty-second note0.12561.816.17

Half time 60.7 BPM · double time 242.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (494.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Around the WorldDaft PunkG major121BPM
  2. Last Train to LondonElectric Light OrchestraG major121BPM
  3. Please Mr. PostmanThe MarvelettesG major121BPM
  4. Come as You AreNirvanaG major121BPM
  5. TopazThe B‐52sG major121BPM
  6. DesperadoEaglesG major121BPM
  7. Lookin’ for a ReasonCreedence Clearwater RevivalG major122BPM
  8. Wish You Were HerePink FloydG major121BPM
  9. CupidSam CookeG major121BPM
  10. Miss the MiseryFoo FightersG major122BPM

Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 121 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G majorAll songs at 121 BPMG major at 120–129 BPMDaft Punk

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 734bc44e-53f5-4fe2-a32e-4c5bbe05605c.