Sam Cooke · Twistin’ the Night Away
Sugar Dumpling
Sugar Dumpling is in C major at 137.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
137 BPM · Allegromedian of 132 analyses · 137.2–137.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 93%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 132people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 436.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.4Hz · -22 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.65dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.879Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.191Essentia'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. Most of them — 93% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 132 readings; 93% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 137.4 BPM one beat lasts 436.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 109.2 ms and a dotted eighth 327.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 68.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 274.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.4 Hz, which is 22 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 4.65 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 0.879 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 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 C major
Each of these differs from C 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 137 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1746.7 | 0.57 |
| Half note | 2 | 873.4 | 1.15 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 655 | 1.53 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 436.7 | 2.29 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 291.1 | 3.44 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 327.5 | 3.05 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 218.3 | 4.58 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 145.6 | 6.87 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 163.8 | 6.11 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 109.2 | 9.16 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 72.8 | 13.74 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 54.6 | 18.32 |
Half time 68.7 BPM · double time 274.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (436.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- MinorityGreen DayC major138BPM
- Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on MeElton JohnC major137BPM
- Knives OutRadioheadC major137BPM
- Will You Love Me TomorrowThe ShirellesC major137BPM
- Take It AllAdeleC major137BPM
- She BopCyndi LauperC major137BPM
- From Me to YouThe BeatlesC major137BPM
- See SawAretha FranklinC major136BPM
- Material GirlMadonnaC major136BPM
- Red Hill Mining TownU2C major139BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 137 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 137 BPMC major at 130–139 BPMSam Cooke
MusicBrainz collapses 13 recording ids into this one. Recording id c579522c-9df4-4da4-ac8a-c57cbd2c6df9.