TempoPeek

Whitney Houston · Whitney Houston

Saving All My Love for You

Saving All My Love for You is in A major at 99.2 beats per minute.

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Tempo

99 BPM · Andantemedian of 222 analyses · 99.1–99.4 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
91%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
222people who ran the extractor
One beat
604.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
Dynamics
6.29dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.545Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.16Essentia'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

222 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 91% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 222 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 99.2 BPM one beat lasts 604.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 151.2 ms and a dotted eighth 453.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 49.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 198.4. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.3 Hz, which is 1 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 6.29 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 0.545 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 A 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 A major

Each of these differs from A 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 99 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42419.40.41
Half note21209.70.83
Dotted quarter1.5907.31.1
Quarter note (one beat)1604.81.65
Quarter triplet0.667403.22.48
Dotted eighth0.75453.62.2
Eighth note0.5302.43.31
Eighth triplet0.333201.64.96
Dotted sixteenth0.375226.84.41
Sixteenth note0.25151.26.61
Sixteenth triplet0.167100.89.92
Thirty-second note0.12575.613.23

Half time 49.6 BPM · double time 198.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (604.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. One More Time (Romanthony’s unplugged)Daft PunkA major99BPM
  2. Hip Hop HoorayNaughty by NatureA major99BPM
  3. Living for the CityStevie WonderA major99BPM
  4. (Just Like) Starting OverJohn Lennon & Yoko OnoA major99BPM
  5. I Want It That WayBackstreet BoysA major99BPM
  6. Never Gonna Say I’m SorryAce of BaseA major99BPM
  7. I’ve Got a WomanRay CharlesA major100BPM
  8. When the Music’s OverThe DoorsA major99BPM
  9. Is It True?EaglesA major99BPM
  10. Love Is an Open Door (from “Frozen” soundtrack version)Kristen Bell & Santino FontanaA major100BPM

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 99 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A majorAll songs at 99 BPMA major at 90–99 BPMWhitney Houston

MusicBrainz collapses 27 recording ids into this one. Recording id afaf6df8-cf3c-4bdd-8ec0-6f6e866c4ca6.