David Bowie · Lodger
Fantastic Voyage
Fantastic Voyage is in A major at 103.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
103 BPM · Andantemedian of 171 analyses · 103.4–103.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 93%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 171people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 580.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 437.2Hz · -11 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.36dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.858Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.273Essentia'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
171 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 93% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 171 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 103.4 BPM one beat lasts 580.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 145.1 ms and a dotted eighth 435.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 51.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 206.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437.2 Hz, which is 11 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 5.36 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 0.858 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 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 A major
Each of these differs from A 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 103 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2321.1 | 0.43 |
| Half note | 2 | 1160.5 | 0.86 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 870.4 | 1.15 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 580.3 | 1.72 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 386.8 | 2.59 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 435.2 | 2.3 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 290.1 | 3.45 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 193.4 | 5.17 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 217.6 | 4.6 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 145.1 | 6.89 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 96.7 | 10.34 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 72.5 | 13.79 |
Half time 51.7 BPM · double time 206.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (580.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Hello Mary LouCreedence Clearwater RevivalA major104BPM
- Mothers of the DisappearedU2A major103BPM
- I Can’t See NobodyBee GeesA major103BPM
- The RoverLed ZeppelinA major103BPM
- TubthumpingChumbawambaA major104BPM
- Crooked TeethDeath Cab for CutieA major103BPM
- This Must Be My DreamThe 1975A major103BPM
- BonesRadioheadA major103BPM
- Two PrincesSpin DoctorsA major104BPM
- Lust for LifeIggy PopA major103BPM
Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 103 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A majorAll songs at 103 BPMA major at 100–109 BPMDavid Bowie
MusicBrainz collapses 9 recording ids into this one. Recording id 1faaacf4-f473-44a8-a1c8-6a3f6b757b66.