TempoPeek

Dido · Still on My Mind

Chances

Chances is in D flat major at 83.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

84 BPM · Andantemedian of 161 analyses · 83.8–83.8 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D♭ major5 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
161people who ran the extractor
One beat
716milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
439.7Hz · -1 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.76dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.862Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.011Essentia'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

161 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in D flat major, a key signature of 5 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 161 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 83.8 BPM one beat lasts 716 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 179 ms and a dotted eighth 537 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 41.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 167.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.7 Hz, which is 1 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 4.76 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 0.862 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 84 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note428640.35
Half note214320.7
Dotted quarter1.510740.93
Quarter note (one beat)17161.4
Quarter triplet0.667477.32.1
Dotted eighth0.755371.86
Eighth note0.53582.79
Eighth triplet0.333238.74.19
Dotted sixteenth0.375268.53.72
Sixteenth note0.251795.59
Sixteenth triplet0.167119.38.38
Thirty-second note0.12589.511.17

Half time 41.9 BPM · double time 167.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (716 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. ChancesBackstreet BoysG♯ minor110BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. LegendaryDayaD♭ major84BPM
  2. Throwing It All AwayGenesisD♭ major84BPM
  3. Otherside of the GameErykah BaduD♭ major83BPM
  4. The Long Day Is OverNorah JonesD♭ major85BPM
  5. Somebody’s MeEnrique IglesiasD♭ major83BPM
  6. Treat You BetterShawn MendesD♭ major83BPM
  7. CrucifyTori AmosD♭ major83BPM
  8. Give Peace a ChanceThe Plastic Ono BandD♭ major85BPM
  9. FallingforyouThe 1975D♭ major85BPM
  10. PositivityBlack Eyed PeasD♭ major85BPM

Recordings in D flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 84 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D flat majorAll songs at 84 BPMD♭ major at 80–89 BPMDido

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 2a73231f-b5bd-4fa3-8846-c0de3c474c64.