TempoPeek

Lady Gaga · The Fame

Brown Eyes

Brown Eyes is in E flat major at 125 beats per minute.

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Tempo

125 BPM · Allegromedian of 183 analyses · 125–125 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E♭ major3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
96%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
183people who ran the extractor
One beat
480milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
438Hz · -8 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.23dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.891Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.367Essentia'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

183 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in E flat major, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 183 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 125 BPM one beat lasts 480 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 120 ms and a dotted eighth 360 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 62.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 250. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438 Hz, which is 8 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 4.23 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 0.891 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 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 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 125 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note419200.52
Half note29601.04
Dotted quarter1.57201.39
Quarter note (one beat)14802.08
Quarter triplet0.6673203.13
Dotted eighth0.753602.78
Eighth note0.52404.17
Eighth triplet0.3331606.25
Dotted sixteenth0.3751805.56
Sixteenth note0.251208.33
Sixteenth triplet0.1678012.5
Thirty-second note0.1256016.67

Half time 62.5 BPM · double time 250 BPM. Every row is one beat (480 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. Brown EyesDestiny’s ChildF major116BPM

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. TemperatureSean PaulE♭ major125BPM
  2. Busy ChildThe Crystal MethodE♭ major125BPM
  3. Don’t Let Me Lose This DreamAretha FranklinE♭ major126BPM
  4. TitaniumDavid Guetta feat. SiaE♭ major126BPM
  5. Good TimeOwl City & Carly Rae JepsenE♭ major126BPM
  6. I Can’t Make You Love MeBonnie RaittE♭ major124BPM
  7. Square OneColdplayE♭ major124BPM
  8. What the Water Gave MeFlorence + the MachineE♭ major124BPM
  9. Straight Through My HeartBackstreet BoysE♭ major124BPM
  10. The Hardest PartColdplayE♭ major124BPM

Recordings in E flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 125 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E flat majorAll songs at 125 BPME♭ major at 120–129 BPMLady Gaga

MusicBrainz collapses 2 recording ids into this one. Recording id 18a5b2dc-c145-467f-8844-2e1422b3c4ed.