TempoPeek

Blondie · Autoamerican

The Tide Is High

The Tide Is High is in B major at 96.6 beats per minute.

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Tempo

97 BPM · Andantemedian of 266 analyses · 96.2–97 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B major5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
98%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
266people who ran the extractor
One beat
621.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
437.5Hz · -10 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.32dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.853Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.345Essentia'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

266 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in B major, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 266 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 96.6 BPM one beat lasts 621.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 155.3 ms and a dotted eighth 465.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 48.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 193.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437.5 Hz, which is 10 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 4.32 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 0.853 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 B 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 B major

Each of these differs from B 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 97 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42484.50.4
Half note21242.20.81
Dotted quarter1.5931.71.07
Quarter note (one beat)1621.11.61
Quarter triplet0.667414.12.42
Dotted eighth0.75465.82.15
Eighth note0.5310.63.22
Eighth triplet0.3332074.83
Dotted sixteenth0.375232.94.29
Sixteenth note0.25155.36.44
Sixteenth triplet0.167103.59.66
Thirty-second note0.12577.612.88

Half time 48.3 BPM · double time 193.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (621.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. TiredAdeleB major97BPM
  2. RejectGreen DayB major97BPM
  3. I Remember L.A.Céline DionB major97BPM
  4. FaithGeorge MichaelB major96BPM
  5. When I Come AroundGreen DayB major98BPM
  6. A Thousand MilesVanessa CarltonB major95BPM
  7. Still DirrtyChristina AguileraB major95BPM
  8. Gods and MonstersLana Del ReyB major95BPM
  9. ChocolateThe 1975B major100BPM
  10. I Don’t Want to Live Without YouForeignerB major100BPM

Recordings in B major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 97 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B majorAll songs at 97 BPMB major at 90–99 BPMBlondie

MusicBrainz collapses 50 recording ids into this one. Recording id e48a0532-f655-4169-9717-c1a0eef16af7.