TempoPeek

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Limelight

Limelight is in E major at 131.2 beats per minute.

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Tempo

131 BPM · Allegromedian of 146 analyses · 130.7–131.3 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
146people who ran the extractor
One beat
457.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.53dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.904Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.254Essentia'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

146 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 146 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 131.2 BPM one beat lasts 457.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 114.3 ms and a dotted eighth 343 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 65.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 262.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 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 2.53 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 0.904 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 E 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 E major

Each of these differs from E 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 131 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41829.30.55
Half note2914.61.09
Dotted quarter1.56861.46
Quarter note (one beat)1457.32.19
Quarter triplet0.667304.93.28
Dotted eighth0.753432.92
Eighth note0.5228.74.37
Eighth triplet0.333152.46.56
Dotted sixteenth0.375171.55.83
Sixteenth note0.25114.38.75
Sixteenth triplet0.16776.213.12
Thirty-second note0.12557.217.49

Half time 65.6 BPM · double time 262.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (457.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Human After All / Together / One More Time (reprise) / Music Sounds Better With YouDaft Punk / Together / StardustE major131BPM
  2. The Unwinding Cable CarAnberlinE major131BPM
  3. Face to Face (Demon remix)Daft PunkE major131BPM
  4. Attacked by MonstersMeat PuppetsE major132BPM
  5. HappyThe Rolling StonesE major132BPM
  6. I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)The ProclaimersE major132BPM
  7. A World Without LovePeter & GordonE major130BPM
  8. When You Were YoungThe KillersE major130BPM
  9. Feelin’ SatisfiedBostonE major132BPM
  10. I’m Happy Just to Dance With YouThe BeatlesE major132BPM

Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 131 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E majorAll songs at 131 BPME major at 130–139 BPMRush

MusicBrainz collapses 116 recording ids into this one. Recording id 3ed46a79-c541-496b-9508-c04ecf9fb206.