Norah Jones · Come Away With Me
Come Away With Me
Come Away With Me is in C major at 80.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
81 BPM · Andantemedian of 172 analyses · 80.1–80.7 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 97%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 172people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 744.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.8Hz · +3 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 8.02dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.065Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.945Essentia'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
172 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 172 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 80.6 BPM one beat lasts 744.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 186.1 ms and a dotted eighth 558.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 40.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 161.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.8 Hz, which is 3 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 8.02 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 0.065 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 C 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 C major
Each of these differs from C 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 81 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2977.7 | 0.34 |
| Half note | 2 | 1488.8 | 0.67 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1116.6 | 0.9 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 744.4 | 1.34 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 496.3 | 2.02 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 558.3 | 1.79 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 372.2 | 2.69 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 248.1 | 4.03 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 279.2 | 3.58 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 186.1 | 5.37 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 124.1 | 8.06 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 93.1 | 10.75 |
Half time 40.3 BPM · double time 161.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (744.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- The First NoelNeil DiamondC major81BPM
- ChangesBlack SabbathC major81BPM
- MisunderstandingGenesisC major81BPM
- I Guess That’s Why They Call It the BluesElton JohnC major80BPM
- Golden SlumbersThe BeatlesC major81BPM
- All I NeedAWOLNATIONC major81BPM
- For My LoverTracy ChapmanC major81BPM
- The Sky Is BrokenMobyC major82BPM
- TrumpetsJason DeruloC major82BPM
- Float OnDanny Brown feat. Charli XCXC major82BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 81 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 81 BPMC major at 80–89 BPMNorah Jones
MusicBrainz collapses 41 recording ids into this one. Recording id a38c28ee-4430-4429-b3e7-e7920895b2d2.