The B‐52s · Cosmic Thing
Follow Your Bliss
Follow Your Bliss is in E flat major at 98.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
99 BPM · Andantemedian of 207 analyses · 98.8–98.8 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E♭ major3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 207people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 607.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 443.6Hz · +14 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.1dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.818Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.176Essentia'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
207 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in E flat major, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 207 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 98.8 BPM one beat lasts 607.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 151.8 ms and a dotted eighth 455.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 49.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 197.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 443.6 Hz, which is 14 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 4.1 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 0.818 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 E 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 E♭ major
Each of these differs from E♭ 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 99 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2429.1 | 0.41 |
| Half note | 2 | 1214.6 | 0.82 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 910.9 | 1.1 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 607.3 | 1.65 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 404.9 | 2.47 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 455.5 | 2.2 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 303.6 | 3.29 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 202.4 | 4.94 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 227.7 | 4.39 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 151.8 | 6.59 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 101.2 | 9.88 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 75.9 | 13.17 |
Half time 49.4 BPM · double time 197.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (607.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Don’t Let Me Get MeP!nkE♭ major99BPM
- But Not for MeJohn ColtraneE♭ major100BPM
- Surfin’ BirdThe TrashmenE♭ major100BPM
- Poster GirlBackstreet BoysE♭ major98BPM
- What’s Happening BrotherMarvin GayeE♭ major98BPM
- Mysterious WaysU2E♭ major100BPM
- Pretty Maids All in a RowEaglesE♭ major98BPM
- ArenaDaft PunkE♭ major100BPM
- TakeawayThe Chainsmokers & ILLENIUM ft. Lennon StellaE♭ major100BPM
- HonestThe ChainsmokersE♭ major100BPM
Recordings in E flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 99 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E flat majorAll songs at 99 BPME♭ major at 90–99 BPMThe B‐52s
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 7fd8d841-98c0-4990-8307-d3cdd4197e7b.