TempoPeek

Cher · It's a Man's World

Walking in Memphis

Walking in Memphis is in D major at 129 beats per minute.

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Tempo

129 BPM · Allegromedian of 206 analyses · 128.9–129 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
98%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
206people who ran the extractor
One beat
465.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
Dynamics
6.02dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.473Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.06Essentia'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

206 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 206 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 129 BPM one beat lasts 465.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 116.3 ms and a dotted eighth 348.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 64.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 258. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.3 Hz, which is 1 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 6.02 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 0.473 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 D 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 D major

Each of these differs from D 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 129 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41860.50.54
Half note2930.21.08
Dotted quarter1.5697.71.43
Quarter note (one beat)1465.12.15
Quarter triplet0.667310.13.23
Dotted eighth0.75348.82.87
Eighth note0.5232.64.3
Eighth triplet0.3331556.45
Dotted sixteenth0.375174.45.73
Sixteenth note0.25116.38.6
Sixteenth triplet0.16777.512.9
Thirty-second note0.12558.117.2

Half time 64.5 BPM · double time 258 BPM. Every row is one beat (465.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. Walking in MemphisMarc CohnC major130BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. For You BlueThe BeatlesD major129BPM
  2. First of MayBee GeesD major129BPM
  3. The Narrow Way, Part 3David GilmourD major129BPM
  4. What You’re DoingThe BeatlesD major129BPM
  5. Maggie MayRod StewartD major129BPM
  6. I Can Hear MusicThe Beach BoysD major129BPM
  7. Jimmy JazzThe ClashD major129BPM
  8. Flick of the SwitchAC/DCD major129BPM
  9. CarsGary NumanD major129BPM
  10. Smack3 Doors DownD major129BPM

Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 129 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D majorAll songs at 129 BPMD major at 120–129 BPMCher

MusicBrainz collapses 13 recording ids into this one. Recording id 2a198833-0dba-4e9e-87ce-4e6cd3fe54b1.