TempoPeek

Israel Kamakawiwoʻole · Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World

Over the Rainbow

Over the Rainbow is in F major at 85.1 beats per minute.

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Tempo

85 BPM · Andantemedian of 138 analyses · 85–85.2 across the middle eight tenths
Key
F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
94%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
138people who ran the extractor
One beat
705.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
443.8Hz · +15 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.17dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.673Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.156Essentia'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

138 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 138 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 85.1 BPM one beat lasts 705.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 176.3 ms and a dotted eighth 528.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 42.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 170.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 443.8 Hz, which is 15 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 5.17 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 0.673 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 F 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 F major

Each of these differs from F 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 85 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42820.20.35
Half note21410.10.71
Dotted quarter1.51057.60.95
Quarter note (one beat)1705.11.42
Quarter triplet0.6674702.13
Dotted eighth0.75528.81.89
Eighth note0.5352.52.84
Eighth triplet0.3332354.26
Dotted sixteenth0.375264.43.78
Sixteenth note0.25176.35.67
Sixteenth triplet0.167117.58.51
Thirty-second note0.12588.111.35

Half time 42.6 BPM · double time 170.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (705.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. Over the RainbowEva CassidyA♭ major93BPM

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. Do I Wanna Know?Arctic MonkeysF major85BPM
  2. XOBeyoncéF major85BPM
  3. Stay With MeSam SmithF major85BPM
  4. MockingbirdEminemF major85BPM
  5. At This MomentMichael BubléF major84BPM
  6. Bulls on ParadeRage Against the MachineF major84BPM
  7. What You Get Is What You SeeTina TurnerF major84BPM
  8. Rock the HouseGorillazF major86BPM
  9. Waiting for That Day / You Can’t Always Get What You WantGeorge MichaelF major86BPM
  10. ThunderImagine DragonsF major84BPM

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

All songs in F majorAll songs at 85 BPMF major at 80–89 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 825e65d0-59c5-4944-bf24-fbc23feda814.