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Delilah

Delilah is in A minor at 84.6 beats per minute.

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Tempo

85 BPM · Andantemedian of 156 analyses · 84.5–84.7 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
96%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
156people who ran the extractor
One beat
709.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
439Hz · -4 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.66dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.925Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.119Essentia'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

156 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 156 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 84.6 BPM one beat lasts 709.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 177.3 ms and a dotted eighth 531.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 42.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 169.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439 Hz, which is 4 cents below 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 3.66 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 0.925 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 A 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 A minor

Each of these differs from A 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 85 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42836.90.35
Half note21418.40.71
Dotted quarter1.51063.80.94
Quarter note (one beat)1709.21.41
Quarter triplet0.667472.82.11
Dotted eighth0.75531.91.88
Eighth note0.5354.62.82
Eighth triplet0.333236.44.23
Dotted sixteenth0.3752663.76
Sixteenth note0.25177.35.64
Sixteenth triplet0.167118.28.46
Thirty-second note0.12588.711.28

Half time 42.3 BPM · double time 169.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (709.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Big PoppaThe Notorious B.I.G.A minor85BPM
  2. Princess of ChinaColdplayA minor85BPM
  3. November Has ComeGorillaz featuring MF DOOMA minor84BPM
  4. Stressed Outtwenty one pilotsA minor85BPM
  5. Andy WarholDavid BowieA minor84BPM
  6. EverlovingMobyA minor84BPM
  7. Just Don’t Give a FuckEminemA minor85BPM
  8. Position of Power50 CentA minor86BPM
  9. Little OneBeckA minor83BPM
  10. PrimaryThe CureA minor86BPM

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 85 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minorAll songs at 85 BPMA minor at 80–89 BPMFlorence + the Machine

MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id 36206928-d110-4873-9988-59d15f5ece1d.