Tina Turner · Private Dancer = プライヴェート・ダンサー
Better Be Good to Me
Better Be Good to Me is in E flat major at 120.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
121 BPM · Allegromedian of 168 analyses · 120.7–120.8 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
- 168people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 497.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 442Hz · +8 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.13dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.874Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.229Essentia'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 E flat major, a key signature of 3 flats. 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 120.7 BPM one beat lasts 497.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 124.3 ms and a dotted eighth 372.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 60.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 241.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442 Hz, which is 8 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 5.13 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 0.874 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 121 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1988.4 | 0.5 |
| Half note | 2 | 994.2 | 1.01 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 745.7 | 1.34 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 497.1 | 2.01 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 331.4 | 3.02 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 372.8 | 2.68 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 248.6 | 4.02 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 165.7 | 6.04 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 186.4 | 5.36 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 124.3 | 8.05 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 82.9 | 12.07 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 62.1 | 16.09 |
Half time 60.4 BPM · double time 241.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (497.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- TalkColdplayE♭ major120BPM
- Every Time We Say GoodbyeJohn ColtraneE♭ major120BPM
- I Cannot Believe It’s TruePhil CollinsE♭ major121BPM
- Baby I Need Your LovingFour TopsE♭ major121BPM
- Serve the ServantsNirvanaE♭ major120BPM
- Invisible SunThe PoliceE♭ major120BPM
- Girls & BoysBlurE♭ major120BPM
- Twenty OneThe CranberriesE♭ major120BPM
- Strangers Like MePhil CollinsE♭ major120BPM
- PerthBon IverE♭ major120BPM
Recordings in E flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 121 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E flat majorAll songs at 121 BPME♭ major at 120–129 BPMTina Turner
MusicBrainz collapses 47 recording ids into this one. Recording id 4ca8e311-cee4-4f52-8b09-b2c502572ba3.