The Walker Brothers · Portrait
The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore
The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore is in D major at 111.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
111 BPM · Moderatomedian of 164 analyses · 110.8–111.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 96%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 164people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 539.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 437.5Hz · -10 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.95dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.923Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.978Essentia'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
164 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 164 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 111.2 BPM one beat lasts 539.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 134.9 ms and a dotted eighth 404.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 55.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 222.4. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437.5 Hz, which is 10 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 2.95 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 0.923 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 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 D major
Each of these differs from D 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 111 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2158.3 | 0.46 |
| Half note | 2 | 1079.1 | 0.93 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 809.4 | 1.24 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 539.6 | 1.85 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 359.7 | 2.78 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 404.7 | 2.47 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 269.8 | 3.71 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 179.9 | 5.56 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 202.3 | 4.94 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 134.9 | 7.41 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 89.9 | 11.12 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 67.4 | 14.83 |
Half time 55.6 BPM · double time 222.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (539.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
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Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 111 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 111 BPMD major at 110–119 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 87 recording ids into this one. Recording id 37a7ab0e-7cad-4b5b-b737-4a241311a967.