Dire Straits · Dire Straits
Lions
Lions is in D major at 112.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
112 BPM · Moderatomedian of 139 analyses · 111.9–112.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 96%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 139people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 534.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 445.6Hz · +22 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 6.11dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.859Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.363Essentia'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
139 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 139 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 112.3 BPM one beat lasts 534.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 133.6 ms and a dotted eighth 400.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 56.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 224.6. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 445.6 Hz, which is 22 cents above 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 6.11 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 0.859 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 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 112 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2137.1 | 0.47 |
| Half note | 2 | 1068.6 | 0.94 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 801.4 | 1.25 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 534.3 | 1.87 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 356.2 | 2.81 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 400.7 | 2.5 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 267.1 | 3.74 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 178.1 | 5.62 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 200.4 | 4.99 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 133.6 | 7.49 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 89 | 11.23 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 66.8 | 14.97 |
Half time 56.2 BPM · double time 224.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (534.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
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Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 112 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 112 BPMD major at 110–119 BPMDire Straits
MusicBrainz collapses 37 recording ids into this one. Recording id 1a267c4b-2994-462b-827f-5be6dbdf77b7.