Marillion · Misplaced Childhood
Kayleigh
Kayleigh is in D major at 106.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
107 BPM · Andantemedian of 247 analyses · 105.6–106.7 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 91%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 247people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 562.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.3Hz · +5 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.03dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.888Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.207Essentia'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
247 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 91% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 247 readings; 91% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 105.6 to 106.7 BPM.
At 106.6 BPM one beat lasts 562.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 140.7 ms and a dotted eighth 422.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 53.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 213.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.3 Hz, which is 5 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 3.03 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 0.888 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 D 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 D major
Each of these differs from D 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 107 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2251.4 | 0.44 |
| Half note | 2 | 1125.7 | 0.89 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 844.3 | 1.18 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 562.9 | 1.78 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 375.2 | 2.67 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 422.1 | 2.37 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 281.4 | 3.55 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 187.6 | 5.33 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 211.1 | 4.74 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 140.7 | 7.11 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 93.8 | 10.66 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 70.4 | 14.21 |
Half time 53.3 BPM · double time 213.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (562.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
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Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 107 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 107 BPMD major at 100–109 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 118 recording ids into this one. Recording id f99a7c76-96d1-45cd-9155-afd24a791e04.