The B‐52s · Whammy!
Moon 83
Moon 83 is in D minor at 156.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
156 BPM · Vivacemedian of 158 analyses · 156.4–156.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 158people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 383.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.47dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.88Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.614Essentia'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
158 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 158 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 156.4 BPM one beat lasts 383.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 95.9 ms and a dotted eighth 287.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 78.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 312.8. A score would mark that Vivace, 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 4.47 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 0.88 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 D 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 D minor
Each of these differs from D 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 156 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1534.5 | 0.65 |
| Half note | 2 | 767.3 | 1.3 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 575.4 | 1.74 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 383.6 | 2.61 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 255.8 | 3.91 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 287.7 | 3.48 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 191.8 | 5.21 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 127.9 | 7.82 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 143.9 | 6.95 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 95.9 | 10.43 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 63.9 | 15.64 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 48 | 20.85 |
Half time 78.2 BPM · double time 312.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (383.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- OptimisticRadioheadD minor156BPM
- BoombasticShaggyD minor157BPM
- New World ManRushD minor156BPM
- Maybe I’m AmazedPaul McCartneyD minor156BPM
- ElectioneeringRadioheadD minor155BPM
- It Don’t Matter to MeBreadD minor155BPM
- FireThe Jimi Hendrix ExperienceD minor155BPM
- TeardropMassive AttackD minor154BPM
- Black CelebrationDepeche ModeD minor154BPM
- Crazy Little Thing Called LoveQueenD minor153BPM
Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 156 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D minorAll songs at 156 BPMD minor at 150–159 BPMThe B‐52s
MusicBrainz collapses 2 recording ids into this one. Recording id 9ef19bda-1d74-4cbb-88f8-2f2f5d64d428.