The Rolling Stones · Exile on Main St.

Happy

Happy is in E major at 131.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

132 BPM · Allegromedian of 227 analyses · 131.7–153.1 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
77%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
227people who ran the extractor
One beat
455.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.8Hz · +3 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.88dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.947Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.268Essentia'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

227 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 77% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 227 readings; 81% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 131.7 to 153.1 BPM.

At 131.8 BPM one beat lasts 455.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 113.8 ms and a dotted eighth 341.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 65.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 263.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.8 Hz, which is 3 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 2.88 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 0.947 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 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 132 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41820.90.55
Half note2910.51.1
Dotted quarter1.5682.91.46
Quarter note (one beat)1455.22.2
Quarter triplet0.667303.53.3
Dotted eighth0.75341.42.93
Eighth note0.5227.64.39
Eighth triplet0.333151.76.59
Dotted sixteenth0.375170.75.86
Sixteenth note0.25113.88.79
Sixteenth triplet0.16775.913.18
Thirty-second note0.12556.917.57

Half time 65.9 BPM · double time 263.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (455.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. HappyPharrell WilliamsF minor162BPM

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

  1. I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)The ProclaimersE major132BPM
  2. Attacked by MonstersMeat PuppetsE major132BPM
  3. Feelin’ SatisfiedBostonE major132BPM
  4. I’m Happy Just to Dance With YouThe BeatlesE major132BPM
  5. Down to the River to PrayAlison KraussE major132BPM
  6. LimelightRushE major131BPM
  7. Now I’m HereQueenE major133BPM
  8. Human After All / Together / One More Time (reprise) / Music Sounds Better With YouDaft Punk / Together / StardustE major131BPM
  9. The Unwinding Cable CarAnberlinE major131BPM
  10. SuzanneLeonard CohenE major133BPM

Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 132 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E majorAll songs at 132 BPME major at 130–139 BPMThe Rolling Stones

MusicBrainz collapses 396 recording ids into this one. Recording id f1c8fa33-fdae-40a0-917c-02f384388133.