TempoPeek

David Bowie · Young Americans

Somebody Up There Likes Me

Somebody Up There Likes Me is in A major at 93.1 beats per minute.

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Tempo

93 BPM · Andantemedian of 182 analyses · 93.1–93.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
54%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
182people who ran the extractor
One beat
644.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.28dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.871Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.244Essentia'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

182 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 54% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 182 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 93.1 BPM one beat lasts 644.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 161.1 ms and a dotted eighth 483.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 46.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 186.2. A score would mark that Andante, 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 3.28 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 0.871 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 93 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42577.90.39
Half note21288.90.78
Dotted quarter1.5966.71.03
Quarter note (one beat)1644.51.55
Quarter triplet0.667429.62.33
Dotted eighth0.75483.42.07
Eighth note0.5322.23.1
Eighth triplet0.333214.84.66
Dotted sixteenth0.375241.74.14
Sixteenth note0.25161.16.21
Sixteenth triplet0.167107.49.31
Thirty-second note0.12580.612.41

Half time 46.6 BPM · double time 186.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (644.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. That’s the Way It IsCéline DionA major93BPM
  2. Back in BlackAC/DCA major93BPM
  3. AirplanesB.o.B feat. Hayley Williams of ParamoreA major93BPM
  4. Out on the TilesLed ZeppelinA major93BPM
  5. No Way BackFoo FightersA major93BPM
  6. I Want You to Want MeCheap TrickA major93BPM
  7. Little Red RoosterSam CookeA major93BPM
  8. MagicColdplayA major94BPM
  9. AfricaTotoA major93BPM
  10. Cretin HopRamonesA major93BPM

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 93 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A majorAll songs at 93 BPMA major at 90–99 BPMDavid Bowie

MusicBrainz collapses 10 recording ids into this one. Recording id 65e291fc-1bfa-4f06-a7e3-767b5951454b.