Heart · Bad Animals

Alone

Alone is in D flat major at 87.4 beats per minute.

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Tempo

87 BPM · Andantemedian of 252 analyses · 87.4–87.6 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D♭ major5 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
83%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
252people who ran the extractor
One beat
686.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
439.7Hz · -1 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.15dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.663Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.973Essentia'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

252 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 83% — put it in D flat major, a key signature of 5 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 252 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 87.4 BPM one beat lasts 686.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 171.6 ms and a dotted eighth 514.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 43.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 174.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.7 Hz, which is 1 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 5.15 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 0.663 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 87 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note427460.36
Half note213730.73
Dotted quarter1.51029.70.97
Quarter note (one beat)1686.51.46
Quarter triplet0.667457.72.19
Dotted eighth0.75514.91.94
Eighth note0.5343.22.91
Eighth triplet0.333228.84.37
Dotted sixteenth0.375257.43.88
Sixteenth note0.25171.65.83
Sixteenth triplet0.167114.48.74
Thirty-second note0.12585.811.65

Half time 43.7 BPM · double time 174.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (686.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. AloneCéline DionF♯ major88BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. I Don’t Deserve YouLloyd Banks feat. JeremihD♭ major87BPM
  2. Why Oh WhyCéline DionD♭ major86BPM
  3. Another GirlThe BeatlesD♭ major89BPM
  4. Doin’ It RightDaft Punk feat. Panda BearD♭ major89BPM
  5. Jumpin’, Jumpin’Destiny’s ChildD♭ major89BPM
  6. PositivityBlack Eyed PeasD♭ major85BPM
  7. Having a BlastGreen DayD♭ major90BPM
  8. You’ll Never Find Another Love Like MineMichael BubléD♭ major90BPM
  9. FallingforyouThe 1975D♭ major85BPM
  10. MAY I HAVE THIS DANCEFrancis and the LightsD♭ major90BPM

Recordings in D flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 87 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D flat majorAll songs at 87 BPMD♭ major at 80–89 BPMHeart

MusicBrainz collapses 28 recording ids into this one. Recording id d2c1d3fa-31ae-4fd1-b0be-daf95ee06d21.