Elton John · Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
Someone Saved My Life Tonight
Someone Saved My Life Tonight is in D flat major at 129.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
130 BPM · Allegromedian of 223 analyses · 129.7–129.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D♭ major5 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 97%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 223people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 462.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 6.36dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.353Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.175Essentia'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
223 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in D flat major, a key signature of 5 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 223 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 129.7 BPM one beat lasts 462.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 115.7 ms and a dotted eighth 347 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 64.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 259.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.3 Hz, which is 1 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 6.36 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 0.353 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 flat 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 130 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1850.4 | 0.54 |
| Half note | 2 | 925.2 | 1.08 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 693.9 | 1.44 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 462.6 | 2.16 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 308.4 | 3.24 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 347 | 2.88 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 231.3 | 4.32 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 154.2 | 6.49 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 173.5 | 5.76 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 115.7 | 8.65 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 77.1 | 12.97 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 57.8 | 17.29 |
Half time 64.9 BPM · double time 259.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (462.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- MultifocusApparatD♭ major130BPM
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- Our Lips Are SealedGo‐Go’sD♭ major130BPM
- Me in HoneyR.E.M.D♭ major129BPM
- The Girl From IpanemaStan Getz / João Gilberto featuring Antônio Carlos JobimD♭ major130BPM
- Bullet With Butterfly WingsThe Smashing PumpkinsD♭ major129BPM
- Red LightU2D♭ major129BPM
- NebraskaBruce SpringsteenD♭ major129BPM
- Video Killed the Radio StarBugglesD♭ major131BPM
- Poor, Poor Pitiful MeLinda RonstadtD♭ major128BPM
Recordings in D flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 130 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D flat majorAll songs at 130 BPMD♭ major at 120–129 BPMElton John
MusicBrainz collapses 18 recording ids into this one. Recording id 5dcb4915-e9e8-4c11-9ee5-4e2388d7a041.