David Bowie · Aladdin Sane
Watch That Man
Watch That Man is in G major at 129.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
130 BPM · Allegromedian of 294 analyses · 129.6–129.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 93%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 294people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 463milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 438Hz · -8 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.29dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.967Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.27Essentia'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. Most of them — 93% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 294 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 129.6 BPM one beat lasts 463 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 115.7 ms and a dotted eighth 347.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 64.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 259.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438 Hz, which is 8 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 3.29 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 0.967 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 130 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1851.9 | 0.54 |
| Half note | 2 | 925.9 | 1.08 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 694.4 | 1.44 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 463 | 2.16 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 308.6 | 3.24 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 347.2 | 2.88 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 231.5 | 4.32 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 154.3 | 6.48 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 173.6 | 5.76 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 115.7 | 8.64 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 77.2 | 12.96 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 57.9 | 17.28 |
Half time 64.8 BPM · double time 259.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (463 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- How Big, How Blue, How BeautifulFlorence + the MachineG major130BPM
- Suspicious MindsFine Young CannibalsG major130BPM
- Shut Up and DanceAerosmithG major130BPM
- Workin’ Day and NightMichael JacksonG major130BPM
- Sexy BitchDavid Guetta feat. AkonG major130BPM
- Everything but MineBackstreet BoysG major130BPM
- Moonlight MileThe Rolling StonesG major130BPM
- MoonshadowCat StevensG major130BPM
- DestinCéline DionG major130BPM
- Drown in My Own TearsAretha FranklinG major130BPM
Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 130 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G majorAll songs at 130 BPMG major at 120–129 BPMDavid Bowie
MusicBrainz collapses 27 recording ids into this one. Recording id 32517fbb-c803-4004-9e7b-20b6a5f19ee5.