Aretha Franklin · This Girl's in Love With You

Call Me

Call Me is in G major at 118.1 beats per minute.

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Tempo

118 BPM · Moderatomedian of 315 analyses · 118.1–118.3 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
98%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
315people who ran the extractor
One beat
508milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.7Hz · -21 cents from A 440
Dynamics
6.39dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.361Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1Essentia'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

315 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 315 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 118.1 BPM one beat lasts 508 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 127 ms and a dotted eighth 381 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 59.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 236.2. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.7 Hz, which is 21 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 6.39 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 0.361 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 118 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42032.20.49
Half note21016.10.98
Dotted quarter1.5762.11.31
Quarter note (one beat)15081.97
Quarter triplet0.667338.72.95
Dotted eighth0.753812.62
Eighth note0.52543.94
Eighth triplet0.333169.35.9
Dotted sixteenth0.375190.55.25
Sixteenth note0.251277.87
Sixteenth triplet0.16784.711.81
Thirty-second note0.12563.515.75

Half time 59.1 BPM · double time 236.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (508 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. RespectOtis ReddingG major118BPM
  2. Prière païenneCéline DionG major118BPM
  3. A WhisperColdplayG major118BPM
  4. If I Ain’t Got YouAlicia KeysG major118BPM
  5. CarusoAndrea BocelliG major118BPM
  6. Year of the CatAl StewartG major118BPM
  7. Sweet Painted LadyElton JohnG major118BPM
  8. ShelaAerosmithG major118BPM
  9. The Boy with the Thorn in His SideThe SmithsG major119BPM
  10. The RiverBruce SpringsteenG major117BPM

Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 118 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G majorAll songs at 118 BPMG major at 110–119 BPMAretha Franklin

MusicBrainz collapses 13 recording ids into this one. Recording id 8a64b739-695e-4056-ad03-a7a2a7c67fb2.