David Bowie · Lodger

D.J.

D.J. is in D minor at 112.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

112 BPM · Moderatomedian of 189 analyses · 112–112.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
70%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
189people who ran the extractor
One beat
534.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.46dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.923Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.173Essentia'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

189 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 70% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 189 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 112.3 BPM one beat lasts 534.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 133.6 ms and a dotted eighth 400.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 56.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 224.6. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.3 Hz, which is 1 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 3.46 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 0.923 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 D 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 D minor

Each of these differs from D 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 112 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42137.10.47
Half note21068.60.94
Dotted quarter1.5801.41.25
Quarter note (one beat)1534.31.87
Quarter triplet0.667356.22.81
Dotted eighth0.75400.72.5
Eighth note0.5267.13.74
Eighth triplet0.333178.15.62
Dotted sixteenth0.375200.44.99
Sixteenth note0.25133.67.49
Sixteenth triplet0.1678911.23
Thirty-second note0.12566.814.97

Half time 56.2 BPM · double time 224.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (534.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?Rod StewartD minor112BPM
  2. Wearing and TearingLed ZeppelinD minor112BPM
  3. Something Got Me StartedSimply RedD minor112BPM
  4. Blue in GreenMiles DavisD minor112BPM
  5. Adventure of a LifetimeColdplayD minor112BPM
  6. Jimmy Olsen’s BluesSpin DoctorsD minor112BPM
  7. Shut UpThe Black Eyed PeasD minor113BPM
  8. Power to the PeopleJohn Lennon & The Plastic Ono BandD minor113BPM
  9. The PatientToolD minor112BPM
  10. LateralusToolD minor113BPM

Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 112 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D minorAll songs at 112 BPMD minor at 110–119 BPMDavid Bowie

MusicBrainz collapses 11 recording ids into this one. Recording id 4a921376-6679-4e53-95fe-4e8944b68498.