Daft Punk · Discovery
Superheroes
Superheroes is in G major at 140.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
141 BPM · Allegromedian of 364 analyses · 140.7–141 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 92%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 364people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 426.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.41dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.835Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.292Essentia'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
364 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 92% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 364 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 140.7 BPM one beat lasts 426.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 106.6 ms and a dotted eighth 319.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 70.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 281.4. 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 3.41 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 0.835 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 141 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1705.8 | 0.59 |
| Half note | 2 | 852.9 | 1.17 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 639.7 | 1.56 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 426.4 | 2.34 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 284.3 | 3.52 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 319.8 | 3.13 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 213.2 | 4.69 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 142.1 | 7.04 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 159.9 | 6.25 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 106.6 | 9.38 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 71.1 | 14.07 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 53.3 | 18.76 |
Half time 70.4 BPM · double time 281.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (426.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- ShamelessBilly JoelG major141BPM
- Wooly BullySam the Sham & the PharaohsG major140BPM
- All Down the LineThe Rolling StonesG major140BPM
- 505Arctic MonkeysG major140BPM
- Walk AwayBen HarperG major140BPM
- Let’s Spend the Night TogetherThe Rolling StonesG major141BPM
- DianaPaul AnkaG major140BPM
- Tiny KingdomMeat PuppetsG major140BPM
- She Shook Me ColdDavid BowieG major140BPM
- GorillaBruno MarsG major140BPM
Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 141 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G majorAll songs at 141 BPMG major at 140–149 BPMDaft Punk
MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id 8a98614f-0533-44ef-890a-639cab407a2d.