Ace of Base · The Bridge
Beautiful Life
Beautiful Life is in C minor at 135 beats per minute.
Tempo
135 BPM · Allegromedian of 268 analyses · 135–135.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C minor3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 96%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 268people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 444.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.82dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.907Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.471Essentia'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
268 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in C minor, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 268 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 135 BPM one beat lasts 444.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 111.1 ms and a dotted eighth 333.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 67.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 270. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 3.82 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 0.907 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 135 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1777.8 | 0.56 |
| Half note | 2 | 888.9 | 1.13 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 666.7 | 1.5 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 444.4 | 2.25 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 296.3 | 3.38 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 333.3 | 3 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 222.2 | 4.5 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 148.1 | 6.75 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 166.7 | 6 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 111.1 | 9 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 74.1 | 13.5 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 55.6 | 18 |
Half time 67.5 BPM · double time 270 BPM. Every row is one beat (444.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Beer Drinkers & Hell RaisersZZ TopC minor135BPM
- A Lack of ColorDeath Cab for CutieC minor136BPM
- Yeat’s GraveThe CranberriesC minor136BPM
- A Question of TimeDepeche ModeC minor136BPM
- Love ShackThe B‐52sC minor134BPM
- Black SabbathBlack SabbathC minor133BPM
- Fill Me InCraig DavidC minor133BPM
- Keine LustRammsteinC minor138BPM
- Break & EnterThe ProdigyC minor138BPM
- Don’t Give Up (original radio edit)Chicane feat. Bryan AdamsC minor131BPM
Recordings in C minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 135 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C minorAll songs at 135 BPMC minor at 130–139 BPMAce of Base
MusicBrainz collapses 25 recording ids into this one. Recording id 554a7958-37ca-4718-8e25-b777d7bece35.