Sade · Love Deluxe
No Ordinary Love
No Ordinary Love is in B minor at 110.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
111 BPM · Moderatomedian of 227 analyses · 110.7–110.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B minor2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 95%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 227people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 541.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.13dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.869Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.364Essentia'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
227 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 95% — put it in B minor, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 227 readings; 91% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 110.8 BPM one beat lasts 541.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 135.4 ms and a dotted eighth 406.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 55.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 221.6. A score would mark that Moderato, 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 4.13 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 0.869 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 111 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2166.1 | 0.46 |
| Half note | 2 | 1083 | 0.92 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 812.3 | 1.23 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 541.5 | 1.85 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 361 | 2.77 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 406.1 | 2.46 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 270.8 | 3.69 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 180.5 | 5.54 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 203.1 | 4.92 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 135.4 | 7.39 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 90.3 | 11.08 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 67.7 | 14.77 |
Half time 55.4 BPM · double time 221.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (541.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- CabronRed Hot Chili PeppersB minor113BPM
- Immigrant SongLed ZeppelinB minor113BPM
- The PowerSnap!B minor109BPM
- Penny LaneThe BeatlesB minor113BPM
- Love Is All We NeedCéline DionB minor108BPM
- StarshineGorillazB minor108BPM
- Is It My BodyAlice CooperB minor114BPM
- Know YourselfDrakeB minor115BPM
- The WindowThriceB minor106BPM
- Typical MaleTina TurnerB minor106BPM
Recordings in B minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 111 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B minorAll songs at 111 BPMB minor at 110–119 BPMSade
MusicBrainz collapses 49 recording ids into this one. Recording id 14c3afc8-4dff-47ae-ae61-7e6c3d5a285d.