David Bowie · Scary Monsters… and Super Creeps
It’s No Game, Part 2
It’s No Game, Part 2 is in D major at 101.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
102 BPM · Andantemedian of 157 analyses · 101.5–102.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 74%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 157people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 591.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 438.5Hz · -6 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 7.05dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.425Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.081Essentia'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
157 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 74% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 157 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 101.5 BPM one beat lasts 591.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 147.8 ms and a dotted eighth 443.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 50.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 203. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.5 Hz, which is 6 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 7.05 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 0.425 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 D 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 D major
Each of these differs from D 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 102 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2364.5 | 0.42 |
| Half note | 2 | 1182.3 | 0.85 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 886.7 | 1.13 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 591.1 | 1.69 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 394.1 | 2.54 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 443.3 | 2.26 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 295.6 | 3.38 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 197 | 5.08 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 221.7 | 4.51 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 147.8 | 6.77 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 98.5 | 10.15 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 73.9 | 13.53 |
Half time 50.8 BPM · double time 203 BPM. Every row is one beat (591.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- 52 GirlsThe B‐52sD major101BPM
- Town Called MaliceThe JamD major102BPM
- Time to PretendMGMTD major101BPM
- Work That SkirtThe B‐52sD major102BPM
- Things I’ll Never SayAvril LavigneD major102BPM
- Everybody’s Talkin’ My Baby DownCéline DionD major101BPM
- Goodbye Cruel WorldPink FloydD major102BPM
- All Is KnownKing Gizzard & the Lizard WizardD major101BPM
- Night FlightLed ZeppelinD major101BPM
- JoyrideRoxetteD major102BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 102 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 102 BPMD major at 100–109 BPMDavid Bowie
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 1de93833-43c7-4867-9543-92b7d2234b8f.