Depeche Mode · Music for the Masses
Sacred
Sacred is in D flat major at 120.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
121 BPM · Allegromedian of 136 analyses · 120.8–121.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D♭ major5 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 83%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 136people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 496.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 439.2Hz · -3 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.63dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.704Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.258Essentia'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
136 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 83% — put it in D flat major, a key signature of 5 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 136 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 120.9 BPM one beat lasts 496.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 124.1 ms and a dotted eighth 372.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 60.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 241.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.2 Hz, which is 3 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 4.63 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 0.704 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 flat 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 121 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1985.1 | 0.5 |
| Half note | 2 | 992.6 | 1.01 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 744.4 | 1.34 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 496.3 | 2.02 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 330.9 | 3.02 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 372.2 | 2.69 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 248.1 | 4.03 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 165.4 | 6.05 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 186.1 | 5.37 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 124.1 | 8.06 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 82.7 | 12.09 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 62 | 16.12 |
Half time 60.5 BPM · double time 241.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (496.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Eenie MeenieJustin Bieber & Sean KingstonD♭ major121BPM
- Walk AwayBlack SabbathD♭ major120BPM
- Love Hungry ManAC/DCD♭ major120BPM
- PeopleAWOLNATIOND♭ major120BPM
- Little Bit of LoveCéline DionD♭ major120BPM
- Because You Loved MeCéline DionD♭ major120BPM
- SingEd SheeranD♭ major120BPM
- SugarMaroon 5D♭ major120BPM
- Good GriefBastilleD♭ major120BPM
- True LoveColdplayD♭ major120BPM
Recordings in D flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 121 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D flat majorAll songs at 121 BPMD♭ major at 120–129 BPMDepeche Mode
MusicBrainz collapses 8 recording ids into this one. Recording id 00f86791-490e-4fd6-a5aa-b8e2ebc5a5bc.