TempoPeek

D’Angelo · Brown Sugar

Brown Sugar

Brown Sugar is in A minor at 83.1 beats per minute.

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Tempo

83 BPM · Andantemedian of 157 analyses · 83–83.1 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
157people who ran the extractor
One beat
722milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
445.9Hz · +23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.73dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.854Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.044Essentia'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

157 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 157 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 83.1 BPM one beat lasts 722 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 180.5 ms and a dotted eighth 541.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 41.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 166.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 445.9 Hz, which is 23 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 4.73 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 0.854 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 A minor; 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 A minor

Each of these differs from A minor 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 83 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42888.10.35
Half note214440.69
Dotted quarter1.510830.92
Quarter note (one beat)17221.39
Quarter triplet0.667481.32.08
Dotted eighth0.75541.51.85
Eighth note0.53612.77
Eighth triplet0.333240.74.16
Dotted sixteenth0.375270.83.69
Sixteenth note0.25180.55.54
Sixteenth triplet0.167120.38.31
Thirty-second note0.12590.311.08

Half time 41.6 BPM · double time 166.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (722 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. Brown SugarThe Rolling StonesC major129BPM

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. Little OneBeckA minor83BPM
  2. [White Blur 2]Aphex TwinA minor83BPM
  3. Boogie ManAerosmithA minor82BPM
  4. Grandma’s HandsBill WithersA minor82BPM
  5. Andy WarholDavid BowieA minor84BPM
  6. EverlovingMobyA minor84BPM
  7. November Has ComeGorillaz featuring MF DOOMA minor84BPM
  8. Sound Check (Gravity)GorillazA minor82BPM
  9. Big PoppaThe Notorious B.I.G.A minor85BPM
  10. DelilahFlorence + the MachineA minor85BPM

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 83 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minorAll songs at 83 BPMA minor at 80–89 BPMD’Angelo

MusicBrainz collapses 32 recording ids into this one. Recording id a46d5218-a865-4301-93d0-c43ee896ab11.