ABBA · The Visitors
The Day Before You Came
The Day Before You Came is in C minor at 107.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
108 BPM · Andantemedian of 202 analyses · 107.5–107.7 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C minor3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 202people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 558.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.64dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.937Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.4Essentia'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
202 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in C minor, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 202 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 107.5 BPM one beat lasts 558.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 139.5 ms and a dotted eighth 418.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 53.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 215. A score would mark that Andante, 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 4.64 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 0.937 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 C minor; 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 C minor
Each of these differs from C minor 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 108 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2232.6 | 0.45 |
| Half note | 2 | 1116.3 | 0.9 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 837.2 | 1.19 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 558.1 | 1.79 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 372.1 | 2.69 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 418.6 | 2.39 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 279.1 | 3.58 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 186 | 5.38 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 209.3 | 4.78 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 139.5 | 7.17 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 93 | 10.75 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 69.8 | 14.33 |
Half time 53.8 BPM · double time 215 BPM. Every row is one beat (558.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- I’m Movin’ OnRay CharlesC minor108BPM
- TrampOtis Redding & Carla ThomasC minor107BPM
- HypnotizedFleetwood MacC minor108BPM
- Intro (Back to Basics)Christina AguileraC minor108BPM
- Whammy KissThe B‐52sC minor107BPM
- Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)Kate BushC minor108BPM
- Back in BusinessAC/DCC minor109BPM
- Nature BoyCéline DionC minor106BPM
- I Want YouSavage GardenC minor106BPM
- Chim Chim Cher‐eeDick Van Dyke, Julie Andrews, Karen Dotrice & Matthew GarberC minor106BPM
Recordings in C minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 108 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C minorAll songs at 108 BPMC minor at 100–109 BPMABBA
MusicBrainz collapses 14 recording ids into this one. Recording id 4727cfff-ffed-4b1e-bd4a-d6ec558deb53.