The Black Eyed Peas · The Beginning
Someday
Someday is in F major at 128 beats per minute.
Tempo
128 BPM · Allegromedian of 168 analyses · 128–128 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 168people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 468.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.15dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.779Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.243Essentia'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
168 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 168 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 128 BPM one beat lasts 468.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 117.2 ms and a dotted eighth 351.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 64 BPM, counted twice as fast 256. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 4.15 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 0.779 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 F 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 F major
Each of these differs from F 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 128 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1875 | 0.53 |
| Half note | 2 | 937.5 | 1.07 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 703.1 | 1.42 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 468.8 | 2.13 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 312.5 | 3.2 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 351.6 | 2.84 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 234.4 | 4.27 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 156.3 | 6.4 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 175.8 | 5.69 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 117.2 | 8.53 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 78.1 | 12.8 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 58.6 | 17.07 |
Half time 64 BPM · double time 256 BPM. Every row is one beat (468.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
The same title by somebody else
Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.
Closest in key and tempo
- Satisfy My SoulBob Marley & The WailersF major128BPM
- Peanut Butter JellyGalantisF major128BPM
- YesterdayDavid Guetta feat. Bebe RexhaF major128BPM
- Silent Picturedeadmau5F major128BPM
- It’s Not My Time3 Doors DownF major128BPM
- Nothing Really MattersDavid Guetta feat. will.i.amF major128BPM
- Rapsodia (Rhapsody)Andrea BocelliF major128BPM
- Closerdeadmau5F major128BPM
- Highway Unicorn (Road to Love)Lady GagaF major128BPM
- With YouDrake feat. PARTYNEXTDOORF major128BPM
Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 128 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F majorAll songs at 128 BPMF major at 120–129 BPMThe Black Eyed Peas
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id e34927e7-c2c8-4af6-9c33-522fec082375.