Avril Lavigne · The Best Damn Thing
Girlfriend
Girlfriend is in D major at 164 beats per minute.
Tempo
164 BPM · Vivacemedian of 257 analyses · 164–164.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 89%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 257people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 365.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.21dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.941Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.244Essentia'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
257 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 89% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 257 readings; 91% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 164 BPM one beat lasts 365.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 91.5 ms and a dotted eighth 274.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 82 BPM, counted twice as fast 328. 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 2.21 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 0.941 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 D 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 D major
Each of these differs from D 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 164 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1463.4 | 0.68 |
| Half note | 2 | 731.7 | 1.37 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 548.8 | 1.82 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 365.9 | 2.73 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 243.9 | 4.1 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 274.4 | 3.64 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 182.9 | 5.47 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 122 | 8.2 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 137.2 | 7.29 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 91.5 | 10.93 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 61 | 16.4 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 45.7 | 21.87 |
Half time 82 BPM · double time 328 BPM. Every row is one beat (365.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
The same title by somebody else
Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.
Closest in key and tempo
- Rock Your Heart OutAC/DCD major164BPM
- Some How Some WayJay‐Z feat. Beanie Sigel & ScarfaceD major164BPM
- Hitchin’ a RideGreen DayD major164BPM
- There’s a Moon in the Sky (Called the Moon)The B‐52sD major164BPM
- Summer ’68Pink FloydD major165BPM
- Pink MoonNick DrakeD major165BPM
- Las palabras de amor (The Words of Love)QueenD major164BPM
- Walk All Over YouAC/DCD major163BPM
- Miles From NowhereCat StevensD major163BPM
- SomedayNickelbackD major163BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 164 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 164 BPMD major at 160–169 BPMAvril Lavigne
MusicBrainz collapses 20 recording ids into this one. Recording id 33b9f733-cd53-4535-9dad-d48aff31aed4.