TempoPeek

Stevie Wonder · Guitarra española, volumen 4

I Just Called to Say I Love You

I Just Called to Say I Love You is in A flat major at 113.4 beats per minute.

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Tempo

113 BPM · Moderatomedian of 163 analyses · 113.4–113.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A♭ major4 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
91%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
163people who ran the extractor
One beat
529.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.88dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.752Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.158Essentia'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

163 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 91% — put it in A flat major, a key signature of 4 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 163 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 113.4 BPM one beat lasts 529.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 132.3 ms and a dotted eighth 396.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 56.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 226.8. 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 3.88 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 0.752 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 flat 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 113 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42116.40.47
Half note21058.20.95
Dotted quarter1.5793.71.26
Quarter note (one beat)1529.11.89
Quarter triplet0.667352.72.84
Dotted eighth0.75396.82.52
Eighth note0.5264.63.78
Eighth triplet0.333176.45.67
Dotted sixteenth0.375198.45.04
Sixteenth note0.25132.37.56
Sixteenth triplet0.16788.211.34
Thirty-second note0.12566.115.12

Half time 56.7 BPM · double time 226.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (529.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. IssuesJulia MichaelsA♭ major114BPM
  2. Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of BreadBob Dylan & The BandA♭ major113BPM
  3. What Have You Done for Me LatelyJanet JacksonA♭ major114BPM
  4. Emit RemmusRed Hot Chili PeppersA♭ major113BPM
  5. In Your Own Sweet WayMiles DavisA♭ major112BPM
  6. TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIMEThe 1975A♭ major115BPM
  7. I’m the OneVan HalenA♭ major112BPM
  8. SlideGoo Goo DollsA♭ major112BPM
  9. Third Stone From the SunThe Jimi Hendrix ExperienceA♭ major115BPM
  10. Do You Know?/The Pink Pong SonEnrique IglesiasA♭ major115BPM

Recordings in A flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 113 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A flat majorAll songs at 113 BPMA♭ major at 110–119 BPMStevie Wonder

MusicBrainz collapses 24 recording ids into this one. Recording id 632a2454-b1b5-4483-b85d-4e5c39e8590d.