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Lights

Lights is in G major at 103.5 beats per minute.

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Tempo

104 BPM · Andantemedian of 226 analyses · 103.4–103.8 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
226people who ran the extractor
One beat
579.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
442.5Hz · +10 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.6dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.787Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.062Essentia'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

226 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 226 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 103.5 BPM one beat lasts 579.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 144.9 ms and a dotted eighth 434.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 51.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 207. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442.5 Hz, which is 10 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 2.6 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 0.787 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 G 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 G major

Each of these differs from G 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 104 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42318.80.43
Half note21159.40.86
Dotted quarter1.5869.61.15
Quarter note (one beat)1579.71.73
Quarter triplet0.667386.52.59
Dotted eighth0.75434.82.3
Eighth note0.5289.93.45
Eighth triplet0.333193.25.18
Dotted sixteenth0.375217.44.6
Sixteenth note0.25144.96.9
Sixteenth triplet0.16796.610.35
Thirty-second note0.12572.513.8

Half time 51.8 BPM · double time 207 BPM. Every row is one beat (579.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. LightsEllie GouldingF♯ major120BPM

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. (Sittin' on) The Dock of the BayOtis ReddingG major103BPM
  2. Friend of the DevilGrateful DeadG major103BPM
  3. StarsSimply RedG major104BPM
  4. Lady JaneThe Rolling StonesG major103BPM
  5. UnravelBjörkG major104BPM
  6. AntisocialAnthraxG major104BPM
  7. MassachusettsBee GeesG major103BPM
  8. Fields of GoldStingG major104BPM
  9. MamaJonas Blue feat. William SingeG major104BPM
  10. No Son of MineGenesisG major104BPM

Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 104 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G majorAll songs at 104 BPMG major at 100–109 BPMJourney

MusicBrainz collapses 62 recording ids into this one. Recording id a2632d2c-5862-44f8-8235-1a35539ffbdb.