Carly Simon · Coming Around Again

Nobody Does It Better

Nobody Does It Better is in B flat major at 134.8 beats per minute.

Tempo

135 BPM · Allegromedian of 173 analyses · 134.6–134.8 across the middle eight tenths

Key: B♭ major2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement: 100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses: 173people who ran the extractor
One beat: 445.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning: 448.2Hz · +32 cents from A 440
Dynamics: 6.14dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness: 0.535Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability: 1.014Essentia'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

173 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in B flat major, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 173 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 134.8 BPM one beat lasts 445.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 111.3 ms and a dotted eighth 333.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 67.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 269.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 448.2 Hz, which is 32 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 6.14 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 0.535 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 flat 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 135 BPM

Note value	Beats	Milliseconds	Hertz
Whole note	4	1780.4	0.56
Half note	2	890.2	1.12
Dotted quarter	1.5	667.7	1.5
Quarter note (one beat)	1	445.1	2.25
Quarter triplet	0.667	296.7	3.37
Dotted eighth	0.75	333.8	3
Eighth note	0.5	222.6	4.49
Eighth triplet	0.333	148.4	6.74
Dotted sixteenth	0.375	166.9	5.99
Sixteenth note	0.25	111.3	8.99
Sixteenth triplet	0.167	74.2	13.48
Thirty-second note	0.125	55.6	17.97

Half time 67.4 BPM · double time 269.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (445.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

Recordings in B flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 135 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B flat major All songs at 135 BPM B♭ major at 130–139 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 15 recording ids into this one. Recording id b076d9a2-976d-476e-8f0c-c77137d7d732.