TempoPeek

David Bowie · The Man Who Sold the World

After All

After All is in A minor at 123.7 beats per minute.

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Tempo

124 BPM · Allegromedian of 271 analyses · 123.7–125.1 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
271people who ran the extractor
One beat
485milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
442.8Hz · +11 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.13dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.553Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.996Essentia'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

271 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 271 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 123.7 to 125.1 BPM.

At 123.7 BPM one beat lasts 485 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 121.3 ms and a dotted eighth 363.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 61.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 247.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442.8 Hz, which is 11 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 5.13 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 0.553 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 124 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41940.20.52
Half note2970.11.03
Dotted quarter1.5727.61.37
Quarter note (one beat)14852.06
Quarter triplet0.667323.43.09
Dotted eighth0.75363.82.75
Eighth note0.5242.54.12
Eighth triplet0.333161.76.19
Dotted sixteenth0.375181.95.5
Sixteenth note0.25121.38.25
Sixteenth triplet0.16780.812.37
Thirty-second note0.12560.616.49

Half time 61.9 BPM · double time 247.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (485 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. EasilyRed Hot Chili PeppersA minor124BPM
  2. FleshAerosmithA minor124BPM
  3. Magic TouchAerosmithA minor124BPM
  4. HelloLionel RichieA minor124BPM
  5. Other SideRed Hot Chili PeppersA minor124BPM
  6. Psycho KillerTalking HeadsA minor124BPM
  7. One KissCalvin Harris & Dua LipaA minor124BPM
  8. Behind Blue EyesThe WhoA minor124BPM
  9. CrescendollsDaft PunkA minor124BPM
  10. Knock Me DownRed Hot Chili PeppersA minor124BPM

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 124 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minorAll songs at 124 BPMA minor at 120–129 BPMDavid Bowie

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 6f45de1c-3471-4ff0-8d79-2bce81c95653.