Céline Dion · Taking Chances
A Song for You
A Song for You is in B minor at 123.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
123 BPM · Allegromedian of 140 analyses · 123.2–123.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B minor2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 140people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 487milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.8Hz · +3 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.98dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.232Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.874Essentia'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
140 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in B minor, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 140 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 123.2 BPM one beat lasts 487 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 121.8 ms and a dotted eighth 365.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 61.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 246.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.8 Hz, which is 3 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 5.98 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 0.232 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 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 B minor
Each of these differs from B 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 123 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1948.1 | 0.51 |
| Half note | 2 | 974 | 1.03 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 730.5 | 1.37 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 487 | 2.05 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 324.7 | 3.08 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 365.3 | 2.74 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 243.5 | 4.11 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 162.3 | 6.16 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 182.6 | 5.48 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 121.8 | 8.21 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 81.2 | 12.32 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 60.9 | 16.43 |
Half time 61.6 BPM · double time 246.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (487 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Yes Sir, I Can BoogieBaccaraB minor123BPM
- JammingBob Marley & The WailersB minor124BPM
- My WifeThe WhoB minor122BPM
- Exit Music (for a Film)RadioheadB minor122BPM
- Lovers on the SunDavid Guetta feat. Sam MartinB minor125BPM
- Stone Cold CrazyQueenB minor121BPM
- JingoSantanaB minor126BPM
- Only Girl (in the World)RihannaB minor126BPM
- Blue Morning, Blue DayForeignerB minor120BPM
- Corazón espinadoSantana featuring ManáB minor120BPM
Recordings in B minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 123 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B minorAll songs at 123 BPMB minor at 120–129 BPMCéline Dion
MusicBrainz collapses 2 recording ids into this one. Recording id e83e614c-9009-408a-9f4f-61954ffd5e89.