TempoPeek

Madonna · Erotica

Rain

Rain is in B flat major at 92.4 beats per minute.

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Tempo

92 BPM · Andantemedian of 169 analyses · 92.3–92.4 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B♭ major2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
98%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
169people who ran the extractor
One beat
649.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.33dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.831Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.906Essentia'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

169 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in B flat major, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 169 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 92.4 BPM one beat lasts 649.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 162.3 ms and a dotted eighth 487 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 46.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 184.8. A score would mark that Andante, 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 3.33 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 0.831 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 B 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 B♭ major

Each of these differs from B♭ 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 92 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42597.40.39
Half note21298.70.77
Dotted quarter1.59741.03
Quarter note (one beat)1649.41.54
Quarter triplet0.667432.92.31
Dotted eighth0.754872.05
Eighth note0.5324.73.08
Eighth triplet0.333216.54.62
Dotted sixteenth0.375243.54.11
Sixteenth note0.25162.36.16
Sixteenth triplet0.167108.29.24
Thirty-second note0.12581.212.32

Half time 46.2 BPM · double time 184.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (649.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. RainThe BeatlesC major108BPM

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. BraveSara BareillesB♭ major93BPM
  2. KomorebiCatching FliesB♭ major93BPM
  3. Karma ChameleonCulture ClubB♭ major92BPM
  4. We Are YoungFun. featuring Janelle MonáeB♭ major92BPM
  5. Top of the WorldCarpentersB♭ major92BPM
  6. Lil’ Ghetto BoyDr. DreB♭ major92BPM
  7. Death Around the Corner2PacB♭ major93BPM
  8. All I Really WantAlanis MorissetteB♭ major93BPM
  9. Role ModelEminemB♭ major92BPM
  10. Rock Wit UAlicia KeysB♭ major92BPM

Recordings in B flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 92 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B flat majorAll songs at 92 BPMB♭ major at 90–99 BPMMadonna

MusicBrainz collapses 19 recording ids into this one. Recording id a3ec231c-d9d4-46c8-82f9-1a785935b75f.