Erykah Badu · Baduizm

Appletree

Appletree is in D major at 94.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

95 BPM · Andantemedian of 170 analyses · 94.8–94.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
170people who ran the extractor
One beat
632.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
437.2Hz · -11 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.59dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.904Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.347Essentia'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

170 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 170 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 94.8 BPM one beat lasts 632.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 158.2 ms and a dotted eighth 474.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 47.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 189.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437.2 Hz, which is 11 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 5.59 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 0.904 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 95 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42531.60.39
Half note21265.80.79
Dotted quarter1.5949.41.05
Quarter note (one beat)1632.91.58
Quarter triplet0.667421.92.37
Dotted eighth0.75474.72.11
Eighth note0.5316.53.16
Eighth triplet0.3332114.74
Dotted sixteenth0.375237.34.21
Sixteenth note0.25158.26.32
Sixteenth triplet0.167105.59.48
Thirty-second note0.12579.112.64

Half time 47.4 BPM · double time 189.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (632.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Social DiseaseElton JohnD major95BPM
  2. The RiverAURORAD major95BPM
  3. Ode to My FamilyThe CranberriesD major95BPM
  4. Hide AwayDayaD major95BPM
  5. Love You Inside OutBee GeesD major95BPM
  6. Midnight RiderThe Allman Brothers BandD major95BPM
  7. Hangman JuryAerosmithD major95BPM
  8. Running to Stand StillU2D major94BPM
  9. VulturesMeat PuppetsD major94BPM
  10. The Right TimeThe CorrsD major94BPM

Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 95 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D majorAll songs at 95 BPMD major at 90–99 BPMErykah Badu

MusicBrainz collapses 11 recording ids into this one. Recording id ae9ef5ec-6b38-46c6-a665-4f7961ca51a9.