America · America
I Need You
I Need You is in G major at 135.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
135 BPM · Allegromedian of 155 analyses · 133.7–136.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 155people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 443.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.8Hz · +7 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.84dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.793Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.059Essentia'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
155 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 155 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 133.7 to 136.4 BPM.
At 135.3 BPM one beat lasts 443.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 110.9 ms and a dotted eighth 332.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 67.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 270.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.8 Hz, which is 7 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 4.84 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 0.793 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 G 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 G major
Each of these differs from G 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 135 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1773.8 | 0.56 |
| Half note | 2 | 886.9 | 1.13 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 665.2 | 1.5 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 443.5 | 2.26 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 295.6 | 3.38 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 332.6 | 3.01 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 221.7 | 4.51 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 147.8 | 6.77 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 166.3 | 6.01 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 110.9 | 9.02 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 73.9 | 13.53 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 55.4 | 18.04 |
Half time 67.7 BPM · double time 270.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (443.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Freeway JamJeff BeckG major135BPM
- NightingaleEaglesG major135BPM
- Does Your Mother KnowABBAG major136BPM
- School’s OutAlice CooperG major136BPM
- TroubleP!nkG major136BPM
- Where Did Our Love GoThe SupremesG major136BPM
- I’m Just a Lucky So and SoLouis Armstrong & Duke EllingtonG major136BPM
- IcarusBastilleG major135BPM
- Little SavageElvis Costello & The AttractionsG major136BPM
- The Boy in the BubblePaul SimonG major136BPM
Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 135 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G majorAll songs at 135 BPMG major at 130–139 BPMAmerica
MusicBrainz collapses 26 recording ids into this one. Recording id 2b1d1e4b-9f64-476e-a4b8-60dae864ad2d.