Blondie · Plastic Letters
Denis
Denis is in E minor at 139.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
139 BPM · Allegromedian of 268 analyses · 139.1–139.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 96%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 268people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 431milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.3Hz · +5 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.26dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.879Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.143Essentia'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
268 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 268 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 139.2 BPM one beat lasts 431 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 107.8 ms and a dotted eighth 323.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 69.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 278.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.3 Hz, which is 5 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 3.26 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 0.879 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 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 E minor
Each of these differs from E 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 139 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1724.1 | 0.58 |
| Half note | 2 | 862.1 | 1.16 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 646.6 | 1.55 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 431 | 2.32 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 287.4 | 3.48 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 323.3 | 3.09 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 215.5 | 4.64 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 143.7 | 6.96 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 161.6 | 6.19 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 107.8 | 9.28 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 71.8 | 13.92 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 53.9 | 18.56 |
Half time 69.6 BPM · double time 278.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (431 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Down to the WaterlineDire StraitsE minor139BPM
- Leper MessiahMetallicaE minor139BPM
- Goon SquadElvis Costello & The AttractionsE minor139BPM
- TroubleColdplayE minor140BPM
- Learning to LiveDream TheaterE minor140BPM
- AnthemRushE minor140BPM
- Eleanor RigbyThe BeatlesE minor137BPM
- Knights of CydoniaMuseE minor137BPM
- Planet ClaireThe B‐52sE minor142BPM
- Human After AllDaft PunkE minor136BPM
Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 139 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E minorAll songs at 139 BPME minor at 130–139 BPMBlondie
MusicBrainz collapses 31 recording ids into this one. Recording id 19a575d8-3383-4555-8d18-21a8d5b5e248.