The 1975 · I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
Somebody Else
Somebody Else is in C major at 101 beats per minute.
Tempo
101 BPM · Andantemedian of 155 analyses · 101–101 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 155people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 594.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.33dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.89Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.153Essentia'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
155 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 155 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 101 BPM one beat lasts 594.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 148.5 ms and a dotted eighth 445.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 50.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 202. A score would mark that Andante, 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 3.33 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 0.89 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 101 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2376.2 | 0.42 |
| Half note | 2 | 1188.1 | 0.84 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 891.1 | 1.12 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 594.1 | 1.68 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 396 | 2.53 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 445.5 | 2.24 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 297 | 3.37 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 198 | 5.05 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 222.8 | 4.49 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 148.5 | 6.73 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 99 | 10.1 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 74.3 | 13.47 |
Half time 50.5 BPM · double time 202 BPM. Every row is one beat (594.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- VeraPink FloydC major101BPM
- All Good Things (Come to an End)Nelly FurtadoC major101BPM
- Ballerina GirlLionel RichieC major101BPM
- Blue Jay WayThe BeatlesC major101BPM
- The Last Remaining LightAudioslaveC major101BPM
- Tomorrow Never KnowsPhil CollinsC major101BPM
- Try MeJames Brown and His Famous FlamesC major102BPM
- DeliriousPrinceC major100BPM
- Marching Bands of ManhattanDeath Cab for CutieC major100BPM
- On Top of the WorldImagine DragonsC major100BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 101 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 101 BPMC major at 100–109 BPMThe 1975
MusicBrainz collapses 6 recording ids into this one. Recording id b9f0bddf-c79f-4a4d-be3b-3321babb1fd8.