Aretha Franklin · Young, Gifted and Black
A Brand New Me
A Brand New Me is in C major at 111.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
112 BPM · Moderatomedian of 168 analyses · 111.7–111.9 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
- 168people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 537.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.5Hz · +6 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 6.95dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.258Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.106Essentia'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
168 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 168 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 111.7 BPM one beat lasts 537.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 134.3 ms and a dotted eighth 402.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 55.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 223.4. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.5 Hz, which is 6 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 6.95 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 0.258 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 112 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2148.6 | 0.47 |
| Half note | 2 | 1074.3 | 0.93 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 805.7 | 1.24 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 537.2 | 1.86 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 358.1 | 2.79 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 402.9 | 2.48 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 268.6 | 3.72 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 179.1 | 5.59 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 201.4 | 4.96 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 134.3 | 7.45 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 89.5 | 11.17 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 67.1 | 14.89 |
Half time 55.9 BPM · double time 223.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (537.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Sysyphus, Part 2Richard WrightC major112BPM
- Us Against the WorldColdplayC major112BPM
- The Christmas SongAndrea Bocelli feat. Natalie ColeC major112BPM
- No One to Depend OnSantanaC major112BPM
- Turn It AgainRed Hot Chili PeppersC major112BPM
- Sleeping BagZZ TopC major112BPM
- Summer in the CityThe Lovin’ SpoonfulC major112BPM
- ConfusionElectric Light OrchestraC major111BPM
- Tea for the TillermanCat StevensC major111BPM
- Peace FrogThe DoorsC major111BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 112 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 112 BPMC major at 110–119 BPMAretha Franklin
MusicBrainz collapses 2 recording ids into this one. Recording id 13f9ca4a-88a6-4c1e-9682-9781dd9e1abb.