Madonna · Like a Virgin
Angel
Angel is in G major at 133.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
133 BPM · Allegromedian of 157 analyses · 133.2–133.6 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
- 157people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 450.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.28dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.916Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.399Essentia'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 — 99% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. 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 133.3 BPM one beat lasts 450.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 112.5 ms and a dotted eighth 337.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 66.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 266.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 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 4.28 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 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 133 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1800.5 | 0.56 |
| Half note | 2 | 900.2 | 1.11 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 675.2 | 1.48 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 450.1 | 2.22 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 300.1 | 3.33 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 337.6 | 2.96 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 225.1 | 4.44 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 150 | 6.67 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 168.8 | 5.92 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 112.5 | 8.89 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 75 | 13.33 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 56.3 | 17.77 |
Half time 66.7 BPM · double time 266.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (450.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
The same title by somebody else
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
- TaxmanThe BeatlesG major133BPM
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- Lyin’ EyesEaglesG major133BPM
- Cold Day in the SunFoo FightersG major133BPM
- Things We Lost in the FireBastilleG major134BPM
- Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild HorsesU2G major133BPM
- Squeeze BoxThe WhoG major133BPM
- O Holy NightCéline DionG major133BPM
- IncredibleMadonnaG major134BPM
Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 133 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G majorAll songs at 133 BPMG major at 130–139 BPMMadonna
MusicBrainz collapses 2 recording ids into this one. Recording id eab5aa69-6487-4376-b136-9209fb25ea21.