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Superwoman

Superwoman is in C major at 162.5 beats per minute.

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Tempo

163 BPM · Vivacemedian of 151 analyses · 162.4–162.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
151people who ran the extractor
One beat
369.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.77dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.681Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.142Essentia'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

151 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 151 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 162.5 BPM one beat lasts 369.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 92.3 ms and a dotted eighth 276.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 81.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 325. A score would mark that Vivace, 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 5.77 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 0.681 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 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 C major

Each of these differs from C 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 163 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41476.90.68
Half note2738.51.35
Dotted quarter1.5553.81.81
Quarter note (one beat)1369.22.71
Quarter triplet0.667246.24.06
Dotted eighth0.75276.93.61
Eighth note0.5184.65.42
Eighth triplet0.333123.18.13
Dotted sixteenth0.375138.57.22
Sixteenth note0.2592.310.83
Sixteenth triplet0.16761.516.25
Thirty-second note0.12546.221.67

Half time 81.3 BPM · double time 325 BPM. Every row is one beat (369.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Will You Love Me Tomorrow?Carole KingC major162BPM
  2. Bullet Proof..I Wish I WasRadioheadC major163BPM
  3. Who KnowsAvril LavigneC major162BPM
  4. The Best of TimesStyxC major162BPM
  5. The Rain SongLed ZeppelinC major163BPM
  6. Diamonds and PearlsPrince & The New Power GenerationC major163BPM
  7. San Francisco Bay BluesEric ClaptonC major163BPM
  8. Hurdy Gurdy ManDonovanC major163BPM
  9. MississippiBob DylanC major162BPM
  10. Cast No ShadowOasisC major162BPM

Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 163 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C majorAll songs at 163 BPMC major at 160–169 BPMAlicia Keys

MusicBrainz collapses 12 recording ids into this one. Recording id f203c2ed-c8f9-4a5c-96c1-6ce00d2d40a5.