Carpenters · Carpenters
Superstar
Superstar is in F minor at 83.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
84 BPM · Andantemedian of 135 analyses · 83.5–165.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F minor4 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 93%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 135people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 716.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.5Hz · +2 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.39dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.508Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.048Essentia'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
135 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 93% — put it in F minor, a key signature of 4 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 135 readings; 79% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 83.5 to 165.1 BPM.
At 83.7 BPM one beat lasts 716.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 179.2 ms and a dotted eighth 537.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 41.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 167.4. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.5 Hz, which is 2 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 4.39 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 0.508 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 F 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 F minor
Each of these differs from F 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 84 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2867.4 | 0.35 |
| Half note | 2 | 1433.7 | 0.7 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1075.3 | 0.93 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 716.8 | 1.4 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 477.9 | 2.09 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 537.6 | 1.86 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 358.4 | 2.79 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 238.9 | 4.19 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 268.8 | 3.72 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 179.2 | 5.58 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 119.5 | 8.37 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 89.6 | 11.16 |
Half time 41.9 BPM · double time 167.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (716.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Playa PlayaD’AngeloF minor84BPM
- American WomanLenny KravitzF minor84BPM
- EnjoyBjörkF minor84BPM
- Just Got Back From Baby’sZZ TopF minor84BPM
- XxplosiveDr. DreF minor84BPM
- The LifeAlicia KeysF minor85BPM
- Scentless ApprenticeNirvanaF minor85BPM
- MotoneuronPaul DinletirF minor85BPM
- Square DanceEminemF minor82BPM
- Don’t Push Me50 Cent feat. Lloyd Banks of G Unit & EminemF minor86BPM
Recordings in F minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 84 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F minorAll songs at 84 BPMF minor at 80–89 BPMCarpenters
MusicBrainz collapses 36 recording ids into this one. Recording id 5c0fba7b-5b16-402f-bf77-c8d37dc41d3e.