TempoPeek

Elton John · Elton John

Border Song

Border Song is in C major at 132.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

132 BPM · Allegromedian of 231 analyses · 129.7–136.2 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
231people who ran the extractor
One beat
453.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
435.2Hz · -19 cents from A 440
Dynamics
6.12dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.315Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.875Essentia'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

231 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 231 readings; 88% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 129.7 to 136.2 BPM.

At 132.3 BPM one beat lasts 453.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 113.4 ms and a dotted eighth 340.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 66.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 264.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 435.2 Hz, which is 19 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 6.12 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 0.315 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 C 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 C major

Each of these differs from C 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 132 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41814.10.55
Half note29071.1
Dotted quarter1.5680.31.47
Quarter note (one beat)1453.52.21
Quarter triplet0.667302.33.31
Dotted eighth0.75340.12.94
Eighth note0.5226.84.41
Eighth triplet0.333151.26.62
Dotted sixteenth0.375170.15.88
Sixteenth note0.25113.48.82
Sixteenth triplet0.16775.613.23
Thirty-second note0.12556.717.64

Half time 66.2 BPM · double time 264.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (453.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Poorboy ShuffleCreedence Clearwater RevivalC major132BPM
  2. Bennie and the JetsElton JohnC major132BPM
  3. Super FreakRick JamesC major133BPM
  4. Rat SaladBlack SabbathC major132BPM
  5. SomethingThe BeatlesC major133BPM
  6. No Light, No LightFlorence + the MachineC major132BPM
  7. On Every StreetDire StraitsC major132BPM
  8. Morning Has BrokenCat StevensC major133BPM
  9. DanielElton JohnC major133BPM
  10. BlindedThriceC major132BPM

Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 132 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C majorAll songs at 132 BPMC major at 130–139 BPMElton John

MusicBrainz collapses 20 recording ids into this one. Recording id 9bb24681-db91-45dc-ae75-fe37965480a3.