Bon Iver · For Emma, Forever Ago
Skinny Love
Skinny Love is in B major at 152.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
153 BPM · Allegromedian of 154 analyses · 152.5–152.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B major5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 91%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 154people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 393.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 456Hz · +62 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 8.73dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.118Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.966Essentia'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
154 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 91% — put it in B major, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 154 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 152.6 BPM one beat lasts 393.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 98.3 ms and a dotted eighth 294.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 76.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 305.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 456 Hz, which is 62 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — far enough that playing along at 440 Hz will sound wrong. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 8.73 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 0.118 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 153 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1572.7 | 0.64 |
| Half note | 2 | 786.4 | 1.27 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 589.8 | 1.7 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 393.2 | 2.54 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 262.1 | 3.81 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 294.9 | 3.39 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 196.6 | 5.09 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 131.1 | 7.63 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 147.4 | 6.78 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 98.3 | 10.17 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 65.5 | 15.26 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 49.1 | 20.35 |
Half time 76.3 BPM · double time 305.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (393.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- You Found MeThe FrayB major152BPM
- Whatcha See Is Whatcha GetThe DramaticsB major153BPM
- Song for the AskingSimon & GarfunkelB major154BPM
- I’m YoursJason MrazB major151BPM
- Hate & WarThe ClashB major151BPM
- Love ManOtis ReddingB major151BPM
- People Need LoveABBAB major155BPM
- November RainGuns N’ RosesB major155BPM
- CataractsThriceB major155BPM
- EyeThe Smashing PumpkinsB major156BPM
Recordings in B major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 153 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B majorAll songs at 153 BPMB major at 150–159 BPMBon Iver
MusicBrainz collapses 14 recording ids into this one. Recording id 8a8ca6f4-2150-4b2b-935d-b66962de3b89.