Beyoncé feat. Jay-Z · Dangerously in Love

Crazy in Love

Crazy in Love is in G minor at 99.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

99 BPM · Andantemedian of 242 analyses · 99.2–99.3 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G minor2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
97%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
242people who ran the extractor
One beat
604.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
445.6Hz · +22 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.63dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.889Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.192Essentia'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

242 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in G minor, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 242 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 99.3 BPM one beat lasts 604.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 151.1 ms and a dotted eighth 453.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 49.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 198.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 445.6 Hz, which is 22 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 3.63 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 0.889 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 minor; 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 minor

Each of these differs from G minor 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 99 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42416.90.41
Half note21208.50.83
Dotted quarter1.5906.31.1
Quarter note (one beat)1604.21.66
Quarter triplet0.667402.82.48
Dotted eighth0.75453.22.21
Eighth note0.5302.13.31
Eighth triplet0.333201.44.97
Dotted sixteenth0.375226.64.41
Sixteenth note0.25151.16.62
Sixteenth triplet0.167100.79.93
Thirty-second note0.12575.513.24

Half time 49.7 BPM · double time 198.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (604.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Witchy WomanEaglesG minor99BPM
  2. Ain’t It FunnyJennifer LopezG minor100BPM
  3. Without YouChristina AguileraG minor99BPM
  4. DirrtyChristina Aguilera featuring RedmanG minor100BPM
  5. Free Your MindEn VogueG minor100BPM
  6. ShoutTears for FearsG minor98BPM
  7. DeceptionMiles DavisG minor101BPM
  8. BacheloretteBjörkG minor97BPM
  9. Buena Vista Social ClubBuena Vista Social ClubG minor102BPM
  10. If You Have to AskRed Hot Chili PeppersG minor96BPM

Recordings in G minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 99 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G minorAll songs at 99 BPMG minor at 90–99 BPMBeyoncé feat. Jay-Z

MusicBrainz collapses 19 recording ids into this one. Recording id ce547594-5199-49a2-9cb7-ff39e64a469f.