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On Your Own
On Your Own is in B major at 84.1 beats per minute.
Tempo
84 BPM · Andantemedian of 192 analyses · 84.1–84.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B major5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 93%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 192people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 713.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.33dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.912Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.128Essentia'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
192 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 93% — put it in B major, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 192 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 84.1 BPM one beat lasts 713.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 178.4 ms and a dotted eighth 535.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 42.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 168.2. 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 4.33 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 0.912 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 84 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2853.7 | 0.35 |
| Half note | 2 | 1426.9 | 0.7 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1070.2 | 0.93 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 713.4 | 1.4 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 475.6 | 2.1 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 535.1 | 1.87 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 356.7 | 2.8 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 237.8 | 4.2 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 267.5 | 3.74 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 178.4 | 5.61 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 118.9 | 8.41 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 89.2 | 11.21 |
Half time 42.1 BPM · double time 168.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (713.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- I Miss YouBeyoncéB major84BPM
- Woman in LoveBarbra StreisandB major85BPM
- I Need You TonightBackstreet BoysB major85BPM
- IronicAlanis MorissetteB major85BPM
- Listen to Your HeartRoxetteB major86BPM
- YellowColdplayB major87BPM
- What Do I GetBuzzcocksB major88BPM
- King of HollywoodEaglesB major88BPM
- I’m Movin’ OnJohnny CashB major88BPM
- NORTHFACE$NotB major89BPM
Recordings in B major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 84 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
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MusicBrainz collapses 19 recording ids into this one. Recording id 0c165e27-1a97-4224-9a9c-c893567ce09a.