Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne · New Eyes
Rather Be
Rather Be is in E major at 121 beats per minute.
Tempo
121 BPM · Allegromedian of 475 analyses · 120.9–121 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 475people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 495.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.96dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.807Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.224Essentia'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
475 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 475 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 121 BPM one beat lasts 495.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 124 ms and a dotted eighth 371.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 60.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 242. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 4.96 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 0.807 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 E 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 E major
Each of these differs from E 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 121 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1983.5 | 0.5 |
| Half note | 2 | 991.7 | 1.01 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 743.8 | 1.34 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 495.9 | 2.02 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 330.6 | 3.03 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 371.9 | 2.69 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 247.9 | 4.03 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 165.3 | 6.05 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 186 | 5.38 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 124 | 8.07 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 82.6 | 12.1 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 62 | 16.13 |
Half time 60.5 BPM · double time 242 BPM. Every row is one beat (495.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Don’t Worry BabyThe Beach BoysE major121BPM
- Miracle ManElvis CostelloE major121BPM
- Tears Dry on Their OwnAmy WinehouseE major121BPM
- Only Happy When It RainsGarbageE major121BPM
- Life in a Northern TownThe Dream AcademyE major121BPM
- Beautiful GirlINXSE major121BPM
- Longfellow SerenadeNeil DiamondE major122BPM
- Dig InNeil DiamondE major120BPM
- StarlightMuseE major122BPM
- Kingdom ComeDavid BowieE major122BPM
Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 121 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E majorAll songs at 121 BPME major at 120–129 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 18 recording ids into this one. Recording id 78a8d975-1257-4fc4-a634-50f89a62de47.