TempoPeek

Earth, Wind & Fire · Now, Then & Forever

Shining Star

Shining Star is in E minor at 102.6 beats per minute.

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Tempo

103 BPM · Andantemedian of 254 analyses · 96.5–102.8 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
85%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
254people who ran the extractor
One beat
584.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
442.9Hz · +11.5 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.16dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.93Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.478Essentia'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

254 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 85% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 254 readings; 89% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 96.5 to 102.8 BPM.

At 102.6 BPM one beat lasts 584.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 146.2 ms and a dotted eighth 438.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 51.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 205.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442.9 Hz, which is 11.5 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 3.16 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 0.93 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 103 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42339.20.43
Half note21169.60.86
Dotted quarter1.5877.21.14
Quarter note (one beat)1584.81.71
Quarter triplet0.667389.92.57
Dotted eighth0.75438.62.28
Eighth note0.5292.43.42
Eighth triplet0.333194.95.13
Dotted sixteenth0.375219.34.56
Sixteenth note0.25146.26.84
Sixteenth triplet0.16797.510.26
Thirty-second note0.12573.113.68

Half time 51.3 BPM · double time 205.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (584.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. Shining StarBackstreet BoysC minor105BPM

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. Lady D’ArbanvilleCat StevensE minor103BPM
  2. My GirlAerosmithE minor103BPM
  3. Bestrafe michRammsteinE minor103BPM
  4. TourniquetEvanescenceE minor102BPM
  5. CriminalEminemE minor102BPM
  6. Peaches & Cream112E minor102BPM
  7. Tres equisCypress HillE minor103BPM
  8. Riders on the StormThe DoorsE minor103BPM
  9. HauntedEvanescenceE minor104BPM
  10. Mother’s Little HelperThe Rolling StonesE minor101BPM

Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 103 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E minorAll songs at 103 BPME minor at 100–109 BPMEarth, Wind & Fire

MusicBrainz collapses 24 recording ids into this one. Recording id 7d418f2a-d819-479b-8ab1-656a9efaa3e1.