TempoPeek

Daryl Hall & John Oates · H₂O

Maneater

Maneater is in A major at 88.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

89 BPM · Andantemedian of 294 analyses · 88.7–89.1 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
60%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
294people who ran the extractor
One beat
675.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
443.8Hz · +15 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.13dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.938Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.504Essentia'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

294 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 60% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 294 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 88.8 BPM one beat lasts 675.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 168.9 ms and a dotted eighth 506.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 44.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 177.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 443.8 Hz, which is 15 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 4.13 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 0.938 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 A 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 A major

Each of these differs from A 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 89 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42702.70.37
Half note21351.40.74
Dotted quarter1.51013.50.99
Quarter note (one beat)1675.71.48
Quarter triplet0.667450.52.22
Dotted eighth0.75506.81.97
Eighth note0.5337.82.96
Eighth triplet0.333225.24.44
Dotted sixteenth0.375253.43.95
Sixteenth note0.25168.95.92
Sixteenth triplet0.167112.68.88
Thirty-second note0.12584.511.84

Half time 44.4 BPM · double time 177.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (675.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. ManeaterNelly FurtadoB♭ minor133BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. What I AmEdie Brickell & New BohemiansA major89BPM
  2. I Feel FreeCreamA major89BPM
  3. Red, Red WineNeil DiamondA major89BPM
  4. AlisonElvis CostelloA major88BPM
  5. Steady UprisingApparatA major88BPM
  6. High and DryRadioheadA major88BPM
  7. He Is Your BrotherABBAA major89BPM
  8. You’re All I Need to Get ByAretha FranklinA major90BPM
  9. My Last BreathEvanescenceA major88BPM
  10. HurricanesDidoA major88BPM

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 89 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A majorAll songs at 89 BPMA major at 80–89 BPMDaryl Hall & John Oates

MusicBrainz collapses 36 recording ids into this one. Recording id d84143a8-b7fc-4bba-91ff-b354cb3cebfa.