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Beautiful Girl
Beautiful Girl is in E major at 120.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
121 BPM · Allegromedian of 164 analyses · 120.5–120.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 164people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 497.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 443.3Hz · +13 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.23dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.916Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.116Essentia'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
164 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 164 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 120.5 BPM one beat lasts 497.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 124.5 ms and a dotted eighth 373.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 60.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 241. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 443.3 Hz, which is 13 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 3.23 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 0.916 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 E 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 E major
Each of these differs from E 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 121 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1991.7 | 0.5 |
| Half note | 2 | 995.9 | 1 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 746.9 | 1.34 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 497.9 | 2.01 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 332 | 3.01 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 373.4 | 2.68 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 249 | 4.02 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 166 | 6.03 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 186.7 | 5.36 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 124.5 | 8.03 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 83 | 12.05 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 62.2 | 16.07 |
Half time 60.3 BPM · double time 241 BPM. Every row is one beat (497.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Dig InNeil DiamondE major120BPM
- Miracle ManElvis CostelloE major121BPM
- HeroMariah CareyE major120BPM
- Don’t Lose Your HeadQueenE major120BPM
- Don’t Worry BabyThe Beach BoysE major121BPM
- Rather BeClean Bandit feat. Jess GlynneE major121BPM
- DynamiteTaio CruzE major120BPM
- BlowKe$haE major120BPM
- DreamlandThe B‐52’sE major120BPM
- Blanket MeHundred WatersE major120BPM
Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 121 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E majorAll songs at 121 BPME major at 120–129 BPMINXS
MusicBrainz collapses 10 recording ids into this one. Recording id 8c8fa617-91ce-4872-a4ec-1d58d628af9a.