Olivia Newton‐John · Physical
Hopelessly Devoted to You
Hopelessly Devoted to You is in D minor at 73.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
74 BPM · Adagiomedian of 155 analyses · 73.7–110.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 97%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 155people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 813milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440Hz · 0 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.14dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.384Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.976Essentia'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
155 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 155 readings; 88% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 73.7 to 110.9 BPM.
At 73.8 BPM one beat lasts 813 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 203.3 ms and a dotted eighth 609.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 36.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 147.6. A score would mark that Adagio, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440 Hz, which is 0 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 5.14 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 0.384 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 minor; 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 minor
Each of these differs from D minor 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 74 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 3252 | 0.31 |
| Half note | 2 | 1626 | 0.62 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1219.5 | 0.82 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 813 | 1.23 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 542 | 1.85 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 609.8 | 1.64 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 406.5 | 2.46 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 271 | 3.69 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 304.9 | 3.28 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 203.3 | 4.92 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 135.5 | 7.38 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 101.6 | 9.84 |
Half time 36.9 BPM · double time 147.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (813 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Boogie ManAC/DCD minor75BPM
- There’s a WorldNeil YoungD minor78BPM
- AmityvilleEminem featuring Bizarre from D‐12D minor80BPM
- Rise AboveJ. ColeD minor81BPM
- Find an IslandBENEED minor82BPM
- Obscured by CloudsPink FloydD minor82BPM
- Slice of Your PieMötley CrüeD minor83BPM
- On the RunPink FloydD minor83BPM
- Fade to BlackDire StraitsD minor65BPM
- Negative CreepNirvanaD minor83BPM
Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 74 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
MusicBrainz collapses 10 recording ids into this one. Recording id 9953bc26-4c50-494c-976e-91df4570b95d.