Ray Charles · The Genius Hits the Road

I’m Movin’ On

I’m Movin’ On is in C minor at 107.6 beats per minute.

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Tempo

108 BPM · Andantemedian of 193 analyses · 107.5–107.6 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C minor3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
98%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
193people who ran the extractor
One beat
557.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
438.5Hz · -6 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.11dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.933Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.297Essentia'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

193 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in C minor, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 193 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 107.6 BPM one beat lasts 557.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 139.4 ms and a dotted eighth 418.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 53.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 215.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.5 Hz, which is 6 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 4.11 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 0.933 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 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 C minor

Each of these differs from C 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 108 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42230.50.45
Half note21115.20.9
Dotted quarter1.5836.41.2
Quarter note (one beat)1557.61.79
Quarter triplet0.667371.72.69
Dotted eighth0.75418.22.39
Eighth note0.5278.83.59
Eighth triplet0.333185.95.38
Dotted sixteenth0.375209.14.78
Sixteenth note0.25139.47.17
Sixteenth triplet0.16792.910.76
Thirty-second note0.12569.714.35

Half time 53.8 BPM · double time 215.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (557.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. I’m Movin’ OnJohnny CashB major88BPM

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. The Day Before You CameABBAC minor108BPM
  2. TrampOtis Redding & Carla ThomasC minor107BPM
  3. HypnotizedFleetwood MacC minor108BPM
  4. Intro (Back to Basics)Christina AguileraC minor108BPM
  5. Whammy KissThe B‐52sC minor107BPM
  6. Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)Kate BushC minor108BPM
  7. Back in BusinessAC/DCC minor109BPM
  8. Nature BoyCéline DionC minor106BPM
  9. I Want YouSavage GardenC minor106BPM
  10. I Like to Do ItKC and the Sunshine BandC minor109BPM

Recordings in C minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 108 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C minorAll songs at 108 BPMC minor at 100–109 BPMRay Charles

MusicBrainz collapses 51 recording ids into this one. Recording id 240d8f9e-392b-4f13-90cd-01b1539581f1.