TempoPeek

Depeche Mode · Violator

World in My Eyes

World in My Eyes is in E flat minor at 122.2 beats per minute.

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Tempo

122 BPM · Allegromedian of 173 analyses · 122.2–122.3 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E♭ minor6 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
173people who ran the extractor
One beat
491milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
437.5Hz · -10 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.34dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.941Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.387Essentia'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

173 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in E flat minor, a key signature of 6 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 173 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 122.2 BPM one beat lasts 491 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 122.7 ms and a dotted eighth 368.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 61.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 244.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437.5 Hz, which is 10 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 4.34 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 0.941 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 E flat minor; 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 E♭ minor

Each of these differs from E♭ minor 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 122 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note419640.51
Half note29821.02
Dotted quarter1.5736.51.36
Quarter note (one beat)14912.04
Quarter triplet0.667327.33.06
Dotted eighth0.75368.22.72
Eighth note0.5245.54.07
Eighth triplet0.333163.76.11
Dotted sixteenth0.375184.15.43
Sixteenth note0.25122.78.15
Sixteenth triplet0.16781.812.22
Thirty-second note0.12561.416.29

Half time 61.1 BPM · double time 244.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (491 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. BulletproofLa RouxE♭ minor123BPM
  2. Break It UpForeignerE♭ minor123BPM
  3. Leave Me AloneMichael JacksonE♭ minor124BPM
  4. DerezzedDaft PunkE♭ minor120BPM
  5. Hang In Long EnoughPhil CollinsE♭ minor120BPM
  6. Reach Out I’ll Be ThereFour TopsE♭ minor120BPM
  7. The West SidePhil CollinsE♭ minor125BPM
  8. You Make MeAviciiE♭ minor125BPM
  9. Money HoneyLady GagaE♭ minor119BPM
  10. I Heard It Through the GrapevineMarvin GayeE♭ minor118BPM

Recordings in E flat minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 122 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E flat minorAll songs at 122 BPME♭ minor at 120–129 BPMDepeche Mode

MusicBrainz collapses 91 recording ids into this one. Recording id 26f7bb0d-133d-4811-a8bf-0ff930c5a11a.