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Wandering Star
Wandering Star is in B minor at 80.1 beats per minute.
Tempo
80 BPM · Andantemedian of 167 analyses · 80.1–80.2 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B minor2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 98%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 167people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 749.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 443.6Hz · +14 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.23dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.953Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.232Essentia'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
167 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in B minor, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 167 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 80.1 BPM one beat lasts 749.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 187.3 ms and a dotted eighth 561.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 40.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 160.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 443.6 Hz, which is 14 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 4.23 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 0.953 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 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 B minor
Each of these differs from B 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 80 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2996.3 | 0.33 |
| Half note | 2 | 1498.1 | 0.67 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1123.6 | 0.89 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 749.1 | 1.34 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 499.4 | 2 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 561.8 | 1.78 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 374.5 | 2.67 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 249.7 | 4.01 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 280.9 | 3.56 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 187.3 | 5.34 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 124.8 | 8.01 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 93.6 | 10.68 |
Half time 40.1 BPM · double time 160.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (749.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Patiently Waiting50 Cent feat. EminemB minor79BPM
- Darling NikkiPrince and The RevolutionB minor78BPM
- SoldierDestiny’s Child feat. T.I. & Lil WayneB minor78BPM
- The Show Must Go OnQueenB minor84BPM
- StrangersPortisheadB minor84BPM
- I Can’t Tell You WhyEaglesB minor85BPM
- Heaven HelpLenny KravitzB minor86BPM
- 10 BandsDrakeB minor87BPM
- Hands UpThe Black Eyed PeasB minor87BPM
- Alone Again OrLoveB minor87BPM
Recordings in B minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 80 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B minorAll songs at 80 BPMB minor at 80–89 BPMPortishead
MusicBrainz collapses 23 recording ids into this one. Recording id 9170054a-8a9b-4f33-b31f-4ed58347154a.