Sade · Stronger Than Pride
Love Is Stronger Than Pride
Love Is Stronger Than Pride is in A major at 87.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
88 BPM · Andantemedian of 132 analyses · 87.4–87.8 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 98%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 132people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 684.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.5Hz · +6 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.11dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.332Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.97Essentia'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
132 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 132 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 87.6 BPM one beat lasts 684.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 171.2 ms and a dotted eighth 513.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 43.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 175.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.5 Hz, which is 6 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 5.11 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 0.332 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 A 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 A major
Each of these differs from A 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 88 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2739.7 | 0.36 |
| Half note | 2 | 1369.9 | 0.73 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1027.4 | 0.97 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 684.9 | 1.46 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 456.6 | 2.19 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 513.7 | 1.95 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 342.5 | 2.92 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 228.3 | 4.38 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 256.8 | 3.89 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 171.2 | 5.84 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 114.2 | 8.76 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 85.6 | 11.68 |
Half time 43.8 BPM · double time 175.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (684.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
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Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 88 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A majorAll songs at 88 BPMA major at 80–89 BPMSade
MusicBrainz collapses 14 recording ids into this one. Recording id 6a39ec6b-5b2b-4e15-9135-22f6a93b5751.