David Bowie · Let’s Dance
China Girl
China Girl is in G major at 134.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
134 BPM · Allegromedian of 259 analyses · 134.3–134.7 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 63%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 259people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 446.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.5Hz · +2 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.27dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.952Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.307Essentia'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
259 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 63% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 259 readings; 95% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 134.4 BPM one beat lasts 446.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 111.6 ms and a dotted eighth 334.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 67.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 268.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.5 Hz, which is 2 cents above 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 3.27 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 0.952 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 134 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1785.7 | 0.56 |
| Half note | 2 | 892.9 | 1.12 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 669.6 | 1.49 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 446.4 | 2.24 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 297.6 | 3.36 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 334.8 | 2.99 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 223.2 | 4.48 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 148.8 | 6.72 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 167.4 | 5.97 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 111.6 | 8.96 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 74.4 | 13.44 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 55.8 | 17.92 |
Half time 67.2 BPM · double time 268.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (446.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Rollover D.J.JetG major135BPM
- IncredibleMadonnaG major134BPM
- Things We Lost in the FireBastilleG major134BPM
- IcarusBastilleG major135BPM
- NightingaleEaglesG major135BPM
- Freeway JamJeff BeckG major135BPM
- I Need YouAmericaG major135BPM
- Does Your Mother KnowABBAG major136BPM
- School’s OutAlice CooperG major136BPM
- TroubleP!nkG major136BPM
Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 134 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G majorAll songs at 134 BPMG major at 130–139 BPMDavid Bowie
MusicBrainz collapses 137 recording ids into this one. Recording id 3d625288-6616-490a-a1a5-4c73ddabad18.