Beyoncé · 4
Love on Top
Love on Top is in F major at 94 beats per minute.
Tempo
94 BPM · Andantemedian of 157 analyses · 94–94 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 157people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 638.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.53dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.961Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.427Essentia'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
157 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 157 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 94 BPM one beat lasts 638.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 159.6 ms and a dotted eighth 478.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 47 BPM, counted twice as fast 188. A score would mark that Andante, 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 3.53 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 0.961 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 F 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 F major
Each of these differs from F 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 94 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2553.2 | 0.39 |
| Half note | 2 | 1276.6 | 0.78 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 957.4 | 1.04 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 638.3 | 1.57 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 425.5 | 2.35 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 478.7 | 2.09 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 319.1 | 3.13 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 212.8 | 4.7 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 239.4 | 4.18 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 159.6 | 6.27 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 106.4 | 9.4 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 79.8 | 12.53 |
Half time 47 BPM · double time 188 BPM. Every row is one beat (638.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Rainy Day Women #12 & 35Bob DylanF major94BPM
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- Down by the SeasideLed ZeppelinF major94BPM
- Streets of PhiladelphiaBruce SpringsteenF major94BPM
- Inside OutPhil CollinsF major95BPM
- Don’t Go Breaking My HeartBackstreet BoysF major95BPM
- DuetBlack Eyed PeasF major95BPM
- Do You Remember?Phil CollinsF major93BPM
Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 94 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F majorAll songs at 94 BPMF major at 90–99 BPMBeyoncé
MusicBrainz collapses 6 recording ids into this one. Recording id fbcd0a63-2565-4610-a1e8-612d59851df7.