TempoPeek

Cyndi Lauper · She’s So Unusual

Money Changes Everything

Money Changes Everything is in F sharp major at 120.6 beats per minute.

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Tempo

121 BPM · Allegromedian of 183 analyses · 120.5–120.8 across the middle eight tenths
Key
F♯ major6 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
89%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
183people who ran the extractor
One beat
497.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
444.6Hz · +18 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.01dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.884Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.163Essentia'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

183 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 89% — put it in F sharp major, a key signature of 6 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 183 readings; 90% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 120.6 BPM one beat lasts 497.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 124.4 ms and a dotted eighth 373.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 60.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 241.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 444.6 Hz, which is 18 cents above 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 4.01 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 0.884 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 F sharp 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 F♯ major

Each of these differs from F♯ 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 valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note419900.5
Half note29951
Dotted quarter1.5746.31.34
Quarter note (one beat)1497.52.01
Quarter triplet0.667331.73.01
Dotted eighth0.75373.12.68
Eighth note0.5248.84.02
Eighth triplet0.333165.86.03
Dotted sixteenth0.375186.65.36
Sixteenth note0.25124.48.04
Sixteenth triplet0.16782.912.06
Thirty-second note0.12562.216.08

Half time 60.3 BPM · double time 241.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (497.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Girls Just Want to Have FunCyndi LauperF♯ major120BPM
  2. My Sweet LordGeorge HarrisonF♯ major121BPM
  3. PatienceGuns N’ RosesF♯ major120BPM
  4. LightsEllie GouldingF♯ major120BPM
  5. These Are the Special TimesCéline DionF♯ major120BPM
  6. All I Do Is Dream of YouMichael BubléF♯ major120BPM
  7. TiptoeImagine DragonsF♯ major120BPM
  8. A New Day Has ComeCéline DionF♯ major120BPM
  9. Like a VirginMadonnaF♯ major120BPM
  10. Moss GardenDavid BowieF♯ major120BPM

Recordings in F sharp major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 121 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F sharp majorAll songs at 121 BPMF♯ major at 120–129 BPMCyndi Lauper

MusicBrainz collapses 19 recording ids into this one. Recording id 41383717-ec34-4587-9f51-69e2d319c0d7.