Céline Dion · Taking Chances
That’s the Way It Is
That’s the Way It Is is in A major at 92.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
93 BPM · Andantemedian of 309 analyses · 92.9–93 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 309people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 645.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.8Hz · +3 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.18dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.589Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.121Essentia'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
309 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 309 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 92.9 BPM one beat lasts 645.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 161.5 ms and a dotted eighth 484.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 46.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 185.8. A score would mark that Andante, 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 5.18 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 0.589 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 A 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 A major
Each of these differs from A 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 93 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2583.4 | 0.39 |
| Half note | 2 | 1291.7 | 0.77 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 968.8 | 1.03 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 645.9 | 1.55 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 430.6 | 2.32 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 484.4 | 2.06 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 322.9 | 3.1 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 215.3 | 4.65 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 242.2 | 4.13 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 161.5 | 6.19 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 107.6 | 9.29 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 80.7 | 12.39 |
Half time 46.5 BPM · double time 185.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (645.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- AirplanesB.o.B feat. Hayley Williams of ParamoreA major93BPM
- Somebody Up There Likes MeDavid BowieA major93BPM
- I Want You to Want MeCheap TrickA major93BPM
- Little Red RoosterSam CookeA major93BPM
- AfricaTotoA major93BPM
- Cretin HopRamonesA major93BPM
- Back in BlackAC/DCA major93BPM
- Teenage LobotomyRamonesA major93BPM
- Out on the TilesLed ZeppelinA major93BPM
- No Way BackFoo FightersA major93BPM
Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 93 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A majorAll songs at 93 BPMA major at 90–99 BPMCéline Dion
MusicBrainz collapses 6 recording ids into this one. Recording id 94441302-ec48-43cb-894e-359772bbf001.