Kelly Clarkson · Stronger
Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)
Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) is in C major at 116 beats per minute.
Tempo
116 BPM · Moderatomedian of 157 analyses · 115.9–116 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 96%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 157people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 517.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 438.5Hz · -6 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.55dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.96Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.148Essentia'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
157 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 157 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 116 BPM one beat lasts 517.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 129.3 ms and a dotted eighth 387.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 58 BPM, counted twice as fast 232. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.5 Hz, which is 6 cents below 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 2.55 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 0.96 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 116 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2069 | 0.48 |
| Half note | 2 | 1034.5 | 0.97 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 775.9 | 1.29 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 517.2 | 1.93 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 344.8 | 2.9 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 387.9 | 2.58 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 258.6 | 3.87 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 172.4 | 5.8 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 194 | 5.16 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 129.3 | 7.73 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 86.2 | 11.6 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 64.7 | 15.47 |
Half time 58 BPM · double time 232 BPM. Every row is one beat (517.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
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- KissArt of Noise feat. Tom JonesC major116BPM
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- JoeyBob DylanC major117BPM
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- Dry CountyThe B‐52sC major117BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 116 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 116 BPMC major at 110–119 BPMKelly Clarkson
MusicBrainz collapses 5 recording ids into this one. Recording id 5e89cda2-94ab-4f90-bb40-241e61cdd247.