Echo & the Bunnymen · Ocean Rain
The Killing Moon
The Killing Moon is in G major at 124 beats per minute.
Tempo
124 BPM · Allegromedian of 246 analyses · 123.9–124.2 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 246people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 483.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.3Hz · +5 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.63dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.857Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.092Essentia'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
246 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 246 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 124 BPM one beat lasts 483.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 121 ms and a dotted eighth 362.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 62 BPM, counted twice as fast 248. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.3 Hz, which is 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 3.63 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 0.857 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 G 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 G major
Each of these differs from G 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 124 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1935.5 | 0.52 |
| Half note | 2 | 967.7 | 1.03 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 725.8 | 1.38 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 483.9 | 2.07 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 322.6 | 3.1 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 362.9 | 2.76 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 241.9 | 4.13 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 161.3 | 6.2 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 181.5 | 5.51 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 121 | 8.27 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 80.6 | 12.4 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 60.5 | 16.53 |
Half time 62 BPM · double time 248 BPM. Every row is one beat (483.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Stuck in the Middle With YouStealers WheelG major124BPM
- 1999Charli XCX & Troye SivanG major124BPM
- Eleanor RigbyAretha FranklinG major124BPM
- Imitation of LifeR.E.M.G major124BPM
- Do YaElectric Light OrchestraG major124BPM
- Who’ll Stop the RainCreedence Clearwater RevivalG major124BPM
- PhysicalOlivia Newton‐JohnG major124BPM
- Can’t Get You Off My MindLenny KravitzG major124BPM
- Near Wild HeavenR.E.M.G major124BPM
- Touch Too MuchAC/DCG major124BPM
Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 124 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G majorAll songs at 124 BPMG major at 120–129 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 44 recording ids into this one. Recording id 333b309e-78d6-42b0-9672-3334c9d2d165.