TempoPeek

Céline Dion · These Are Special Times

Don’t Save It All for Christmas Day

Don’t Save It All for Christmas Day is in B flat major at 108 beats per minute.

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Tempo

108 BPM · Moderatomedian of 165 analyses · 108–108 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
165people who ran the extractor
One beat
555.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
6.08dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.185Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.988Essentia'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

165 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 165 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 108 BPM one beat lasts 555.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 138.9 ms and a dotted eighth 416.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 54 BPM, counted twice as fast 216. A score would mark that Moderato, 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 6.08 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 0.185 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 108 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42222.20.45
Half note21111.10.9
Dotted quarter1.5833.31.2
Quarter note (one beat)1555.61.8
Quarter triplet0.667370.42.7
Dotted eighth0.75416.72.4
Eighth note0.5277.83.6
Eighth triplet0.333185.25.4
Dotted sixteenth0.375208.34.8
Sixteenth note0.25138.97.2
Sixteenth triplet0.16792.610.8
Thirty-second note0.12569.414.4

Half time 54 BPM · double time 216 BPM. Every row is one beat (555.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. AddictedAmy WinehouseB♭ major108BPM
  2. Tous les secretsCéline DionB♭ major108BPM
  3. Express YourselfDiplo feat. Nicky Da BB♭ major108BPM
  4. Lyrical GangbangDr. DreB♭ major108BPM
  5. Pick Up the PiecesAverage White BandB♭ major108BPM
  6. Bye Bye BabyMadonnaB♭ major109BPM
  7. Peep Show50 Cent feat. EminemB♭ major109BPM
  8. Just the Way You AreBruno MarsB♭ major109BPM
  9. 24K MagicBruno MarsB♭ major107BPM
  10. Blow Your Mind (Mwah)Dua LipaB♭ major109BPM

Recordings in B flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 108 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B flat majorAll songs at 108 BPMB♭ major at 100–109 BPMCéline Dion

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 78d1fe42-3c7c-49c0-8e62-28717252230f.