Roxy Music · Jealous Guy

Jealous Guy

Jealous Guy is in G major at 77.6 beats per minute.

Tempo

78 BPM · Andantemedian of 170 analyses · 77.4–77.7 across the middle eight tenths

Key: G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement: 94%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses: 170people who ran the extractor
One beat: 773.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning: 439.5Hz · -2 cents from A 440
Dynamics: 4.04dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness: 0.787Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability: 1.089Essentia'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

170 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 170 readings; 93% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 77.6 BPM one beat lasts 773.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 193.3 ms and a dotted eighth 579.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 38.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 155.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.5 Hz, which is 2 cents below 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 4.04 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 0.787 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 G 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 G major

Each of these differs from G 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 78 BPM

Note value	Beats	Milliseconds	Hertz
Whole note	4	3092.8	0.32
Half note	2	1546.4	0.65
Dotted quarter	1.5	1159.8	0.86
Quarter note (one beat)	1	773.2	1.29
Quarter triplet	0.667	515.5	1.94
Dotted eighth	0.75	579.9	1.72
Eighth note	0.5	386.6	2.59
Eighth triplet	0.333	257.7	3.88
Dotted sixteenth	0.375	289.9	3.45
Sixteenth note	0.25	193.3	5.17
Sixteenth triplet	0.167	128.9	7.76
Thirty-second note	0.125	96.6	10.35

Half time 38.8 BPM · double time 155.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (773.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

Jealous GuyJohn LennonG major132BPM

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

Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 78 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G major All songs at 78 BPM G major at 70–79 BPM Roxy Music

MusicBrainz collapses 76 recording ids into this one. Recording id 9a01b5fe-c648-4c61-bbe7-bc240a551e68.