TempoPeek

Dido · Life for Rent

Who Makes You Feel

Who Makes You Feel is in E minor at 166.5 beats per minute.

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Tempo

167 BPM · Vivacemedian of 127 analyses · 166.4–166.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
98%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
127people who ran the extractor
One beat
360.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
437.2Hz · -11 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.97dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.487Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.144Essentia'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

127 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 127 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 166.5 BPM one beat lasts 360.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 90.1 ms and a dotted eighth 270.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 83.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 333. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437.2 Hz, which is 11 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 4.97 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 0.487 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 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 167 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41441.40.69
Half note2720.71.39
Dotted quarter1.5540.51.85
Quarter note (one beat)1360.42.78
Quarter triplet0.667240.24.16
Dotted eighth0.75270.33.7
Eighth note0.5180.25.55
Eighth triplet0.333120.18.33
Dotted sixteenth0.375135.17.4
Sixteenth note0.2590.111.1
Sixteenth triplet0.16760.116.65
Thirty-second note0.1254522.2

Half time 83.3 BPM · double time 333 BPM. Every row is one beat (360.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Shock to the SystemBilly IdolE minor167BPM
  2. White LimoFoo FightersE minor166BPM
  3. Amor gitanoBeyoncé and Alejandro FernándezE minor166BPM
  4. I Did It My WayJay‐ZE minor166BPM
  5. Rebel YellBilly IdolE minor166BPM
  6. MoonBjörkE minor166BPM
  7. Barrel of a GunDepeche ModeE minor166BPM
  8. AwakenYesE minor165BPM
  9. Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a PictRoger WatersE minor165BPM
  10. WhiteoutTim DaviesE minor165BPM

Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 167 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E minorAll songs at 167 BPME minor at 160–169 BPMDido

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id bd487b95-54db-4d64-84ac-51b60dc3b4cf.