Arcade Fire · The Suburbs
Sprawl I (Flatland)
Sprawl I (Flatland) is in C minor at 94.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
94 BPM · Andantemedian of 127 analyses · 92.7–95.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C minor3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 91%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 127people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 636.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.8Hz · +3 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.32dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.441Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.944Essentia'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
127 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 91% — put it in C minor, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 127 readings; 95% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 92.7 to 95.4 BPM.
At 94.2 BPM one beat lasts 636.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 159.2 ms and a dotted eighth 477.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 47.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 188.4. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.8 Hz, which is 3 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 5.32 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 0.441 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 94 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2547.8 | 0.39 |
| Half note | 2 | 1273.9 | 0.78 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 955.4 | 1.05 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 636.9 | 1.57 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 424.6 | 2.36 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 477.7 | 2.09 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 318.5 | 3.14 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 212.3 | 4.71 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 238.9 | 4.19 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 159.2 | 6.28 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 106.2 | 9.42 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 79.6 | 12.56 |
Half time 47.1 BPM · double time 188.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (636.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Find My BabyMobyC minor94BPM
- What They Gonna Do, Part IIJay‐ZC minor94BPM
- Nuthin’ but a “G” ThangDr. DreC minor95BPM
- All I NeedAir feat. Beth HirschC minor95BPM
- FancyIggy Azalea feat. Charli XCXC minor95BPM
- Do for Love2Pac featuring Eric Williams of BLACKstreetC minor95BPM
- Bésame muchoAndrea BocelliC minor95BPM
- SummertimeDJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh PrinceC minor95BPM
- QueerGarbageC minor95BPM
- …Baby One More TimeBritney SpearsC minor93BPM
Recordings in C minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 94 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C minorAll songs at 94 BPMC minor at 90–99 BPMArcade Fire
MusicBrainz collapses 2 recording ids into this one. Recording id 3381dfb0-01e7-48e6-b139-7ed7d088a16f.