Florence + the Machine · Lungs
Falling
Falling is in C major at 112.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
113 BPM · Moderatomedian of 132 analyses · 112.4–112.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 132people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 533.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.3Hz · +5 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 6.46dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.39Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.91Essentia'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
132 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 132 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 112.5 BPM one beat lasts 533.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 133.3 ms and a dotted eighth 400 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 56.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 225. A score would mark that Moderato, 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 6.46 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 0.39 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 113 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2133.3 | 0.47 |
| Half note | 2 | 1066.7 | 0.94 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 800 | 1.25 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 533.3 | 1.87 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 355.6 | 2.81 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 400 | 2.5 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 266.7 | 3.75 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 177.8 | 5.63 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 200 | 5 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 133.3 | 7.5 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 88.9 | 11.25 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 66.7 | 15 |
Half time 56.3 BPM · double time 225 BPM. Every row is one beat (533.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
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Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 113 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 113 BPMC major at 110–119 BPMFlorence + the Machine
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 524495d8-b9d8-48ee-b46f-1126733a72f2.