Norah Jones · Come Away With Me

Nightingale

Nightingale is in D major at 150 beats per minute.

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Tempo

150 BPM · Allegromedian of 178 analyses · 149–150.2 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
89%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
178people who ran the extractor
One beat
400milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.8Hz · +3 cents from A 440
Dynamics
7.03dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.283Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.944Essentia'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

178 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 89% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 178 readings; 93% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 149 to 150.2 BPM.

At 150 BPM one beat lasts 400 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 100 ms and a dotted eighth 300 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 75 BPM, counted twice as fast 300. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 7.03 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 0.283 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 150 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note416000.63
Half note28001.25
Dotted quarter1.56001.67
Quarter note (one beat)14002.5
Quarter triplet0.667266.73.75
Dotted eighth0.753003.33
Eighth note0.52005
Eighth triplet0.333133.37.5
Dotted sixteenth0.3751506.67
Sixteenth note0.2510010
Sixteenth triplet0.16766.715
Thirty-second note0.1255020

Half time 75 BPM · double time 300 BPM. Every row is one beat (400 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. NightingaleEaglesG major135BPM

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. What the HellAvril LavigneD major150BPM
  2. RadioLana Del ReyD major150BPM
  3. A‐YOLady GagaD major150BPM
  4. Muscle of LoveAlice CooperD major150BPM
  5. All for LoveBryan Adams, Rod Stewart & StingD major150BPM
  6. Dear PrudenceThe BeatlesD major151BPM
  7. My WayFrank SinatraD major151BPM
  8. Spanish BombsThe ClashD major149BPM
  9. Peggy Sue (alternate version)Buddy Holly & The CricketsD major149BPM
  10. Baby Can I Hold YouTracy ChapmanD major149BPM

Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 150 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D majorAll songs at 150 BPMD major at 150–159 BPMNorah Jones

MusicBrainz collapses 17 recording ids into this one. Recording id 4db138b0-eedc-4640-9f56-ef50960ed483.