Avril Lavigne · The Best Damn Thing
Innocence
Innocence is in E major at 139.1 beats per minute.
Tempo
139 BPM · Allegromedian of 137 analyses · 139.1–139.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 98%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 137people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 431.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.15dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.901Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.09Essentia'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
137 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 137 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 139.1 BPM one beat lasts 431.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 107.8 ms and a dotted eighth 323.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 69.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 278.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.3 Hz, which is 1 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 3.15 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 0.901 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 E 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 E major
Each of these differs from E 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 139 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1725.4 | 0.58 |
| Half note | 2 | 862.7 | 1.16 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 647 | 1.55 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 431.3 | 2.32 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 287.6 | 3.48 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 323.5 | 3.09 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 215.7 | 4.64 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 143.8 | 6.96 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 161.8 | 6.18 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 107.8 | 9.27 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 71.9 | 13.91 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 53.9 | 18.55 |
Half time 69.6 BPM · double time 278.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (431.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Please Please MeThe BeatlesE major139BPM
- A Certain RomanceArctic MonkeysE major139BPM
- Matthew & SonCat StevensE major140BPM
- Tea in the SaharaThe PoliceE major139BPM
- ParachutesColdplayE major139BPM
- ParklifeBlur starring Phil DanielsE major139BPM
- Drowned World/Substitute for LoveMadonnaE major140BPM
- In Your HonorFoo FightersE major139BPM
- If Not for YouBob DylanE major140BPM
- Big Pimpin’ / PapercutJay‐Z / Linkin ParkE major138BPM
Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 139 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E majorAll songs at 139 BPME major at 130–139 BPMAvril Lavigne
MusicBrainz collapses 2 recording ids into this one. Recording id ff64be58-9692-48a1-88ce-a2f8d3890b29.