TempoPeek

David Bowie · Young Americans

Fascination

Fascination is in A minor at 108.1 beats per minute.

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Tempo

108 BPM · Moderatomedian of 169 analyses · 108.1–108.6 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
91%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
169people who ran the extractor
One beat
555milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.99dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.86Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.25Essentia'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

169 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 91% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 169 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 108.1 BPM one beat lasts 555 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 138.8 ms and a dotted eighth 416.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 54.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 216.2. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 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 3.99 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 0.86 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 108 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42220.20.45
Half note21110.10.9
Dotted quarter1.5832.61.2
Quarter note (one beat)15551.8
Quarter triplet0.6673702.7
Dotted eighth0.75416.32.4
Eighth note0.5277.53.6
Eighth triplet0.3331855.41
Dotted sixteenth0.375208.14.8
Sixteenth note0.25138.87.21
Sixteenth triplet0.16792.510.81
Thirty-second note0.12569.414.41

Half time 54.1 BPM · double time 216.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (555 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Letter to HermioneDavid BowieA minor108BPM
  2. UnwantedAvril LavigneA minor108BPM
  3. BodyrockMobyA minor108BPM
  4. The FlyU2A minor108BPM
  5. Nothing Left to Say / RocksImagine DragonsA minor108BPM
  6. Brick HouseCommodoresA minor108BPM
  7. Men in BlackWill SmithA minor108BPM
  8. Suicide SolutionOzzy OsbourneA minor108BPM
  9. RaptureBlondieA minor108BPM
  10. When Big Joan Sets UpCaptain Beefheart & His Magic BandA minor109BPM

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 108 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minorAll songs at 108 BPMA minor at 100–109 BPMDavid Bowie

MusicBrainz collapses 4 recording ids into this one. Recording id 9d9f87c3-a08c-4594-a70e-a6b1c897841f.