TempoPeek

Counting Crows · August and Everything After

Sullivan Street

Sullivan Street is in G major at 80.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

81 BPM · Andantemedian of 193 analyses · 80.8–80.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
95%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
193people who ran the extractor
One beat
742.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
439Hz · -4 cents from A 440
Dynamics
6.08dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.438Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.933Essentia'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

193 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 95% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 193 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 80.8 BPM one beat lasts 742.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 185.6 ms and a dotted eighth 556.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 40.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 161.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439 Hz, which is 4 cents below 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 6.08 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 0.438 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 G 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 G major

Each of these differs from G 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 81 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42970.30.34
Half note21485.10.67
Dotted quarter1.51113.90.9
Quarter note (one beat)1742.61.35
Quarter triplet0.6674952.02
Dotted eighth0.75556.91.8
Eighth note0.5371.32.69
Eighth triplet0.333247.54.04
Dotted sixteenth0.375278.53.59
Sixteenth note0.25185.65.39
Sixteenth triplet0.167123.88.08
Thirty-second note0.12592.810.77

Half time 40.4 BPM · double time 161.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (742.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. End of a CenturyBlurG major80BPM
  2. WordsBee GeesG major81BPM
  3. The Best Damn ThingAvril LavigneG major83BPM
  4. Here, There and EverywhereThe BeatlesG major83BPM
  5. Young AmericansDavid BowieG major84BPM
  6. Red 2 GoDanny BrownG major84BPM
  7. Winter WindsMumford & SonsG major84BPM
  8. Jealous GuyRoxy MusicG major78BPM
  9. Passenger SeatDeath Cab for CutieG major78BPM
  10. After the Thrill Is GoneEaglesG major78BPM

Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 81 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G majorAll songs at 81 BPMG major at 80–89 BPMCounting Crows

MusicBrainz collapses 33 recording ids into this one. Recording id fe52f7ff-769e-4fc8-9831-f6c3d488f60d.