TempoPeek

Massive Attack · Mezzanine

Man Next Door

Man Next Door is in B flat major at 130 beats per minute.

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Tempo

130 BPM · Allegromedian of 168 analyses · 130–130 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B♭ major2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
90%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
168people who ran the extractor
One beat
461.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.2dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.913Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.361Essentia'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

168 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 90% — put it in B flat major, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 168 readings; 94% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 130 BPM one beat lasts 461.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 115.4 ms and a dotted eighth 346.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 65 BPM, counted twice as fast 260. 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 4.2 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 0.913 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 130 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41846.20.54
Half note2923.11.08
Dotted quarter1.5692.31.44
Quarter note (one beat)1461.52.17
Quarter triplet0.667307.73.25
Dotted eighth0.75346.22.89
Eighth note0.5230.84.33
Eighth triplet0.333153.86.5
Dotted sixteenth0.375173.15.78
Sixteenth note0.25115.48.67
Sixteenth triplet0.16776.913
Thirty-second note0.12557.717.33

Half time 65 BPM · double time 260 BPM. Every row is one beat (461.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Somebody to LoveJustin BieberB♭ major130BPM
  2. Broken BonesCHVRCHESB♭ major130BPM
  3. Feel the Same Way I DoDestiny’s ChildB♭ major130BPM
  4. Why I Sing the BluesAretha FranklinB♭ major130BPM
  5. Love BitesDef LeppardB♭ major130BPM
  6. I’ll Never Love AgainTaio CruzB♭ major130BPM
  7. It’s Oh So QuietBjörkB♭ major130BPM
  8. Get Up and JumpThe Red Hot Chili PeppersB♭ major130BPM
  9. Take a BowMuseB♭ major131BPM
  10. StayDestiny’s ChildB♭ major131BPM

Recordings in B flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 130 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B flat majorAll songs at 130 BPMB♭ major at 130–139 BPMMassive Attack

MusicBrainz collapses 11 recording ids into this one. Recording id 9b08eb49-1df7-4138-9bfa-2487c6fa0925.