Backstreet Boys · This Is Us
Bye Bye Love
Bye Bye Love is in E major at 127 beats per minute.
Tempo
127 BPM · Allegromedian of 129 analyses · 127–127 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 129people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 472.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.61dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.94Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.458Essentia'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
129 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 129 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 127 BPM one beat lasts 472.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 118.1 ms and a dotted eighth 354.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 63.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 254. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 3.61 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 0.94 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 127 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1889.8 | 0.53 |
| Half note | 2 | 944.9 | 1.06 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 708.7 | 1.41 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 472.4 | 2.12 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 315 | 3.18 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 354.3 | 2.82 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 236.2 | 4.23 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 157.5 | 6.35 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 177.2 | 5.64 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 118.1 | 8.47 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 78.7 | 12.7 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 59.1 | 16.93 |
Half time 63.5 BPM · double time 254 BPM. Every row is one beat (472.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- BreathlessThe CorrsE major127BPM
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- Run to YouBryan AdamsE major126BPM
- Remember a DayPink FloydE major126BPM
- Here I Stand and Face the Raina‐haE major128BPM
- Hit Me With Your Best ShotPat BenatarE major128BPM
- CakeThe B‐52’sE major128BPM
- I Call Your NameThe BeatlesE major126BPM
Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 127 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E majorAll songs at 127 BPME major at 120–129 BPMBackstreet Boys
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id b2054532-fce9-40c0-830f-cd165c3153cb.