TempoPeek

David Bowie · Space Oddity

God Knows I’m Good

God Knows I’m Good is in C major at 166.2 beats per minute.

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Tempo

166 BPM · Vivacemedian of 245 analyses · 166.2–172.3 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
245people who ran the extractor
One beat
361milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.9Hz · -20 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.99dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.876Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.121Essentia'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

245 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 245 readings; 68% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 166.2 to 172.3 BPM.

At 166.2 BPM one beat lasts 361 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 90.3 ms and a dotted eighth 270.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 83.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 332.4. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.9 Hz, which is 20 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 4.99 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 0.876 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 C 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 C major

Each of these differs from C 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 166 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note414440.69
Half note27221.39
Dotted quarter1.5541.51.85
Quarter note (one beat)13612.77
Quarter triplet0.667240.74.16
Dotted eighth0.75270.83.69
Eighth note0.5180.55.54
Eighth triplet0.333120.38.31
Dotted sixteenth0.375135.47.39
Sixteenth note0.2590.311.08
Sixteenth triplet0.16760.216.62
Thirty-second note0.12545.122.16

Half time 83.1 BPM · double time 332.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (361 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Slow DownThe BeatlesC major166BPM
  2. Carry That WeightThe BeatlesC major166BPM
  3. Truly Madly DeeplySavage GardenC major167BPM
  4. DilemmaNelly featuring Kelly RowlandC major167BPM
  5. New Genious (Brother)GorillazC major167BPM
  6. Learning to FlyPink FloydC major166BPM
  7. Seaside RendezvousQueenC major166BPM
  8. Mein Herz brenntRammsteinC major166BPM
  9. RococoArcade FireC major166BPM
  10. A Pair Of Brown EyesThe PoguesC major165BPM

Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 166 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C majorAll songs at 166 BPMC major at 160–169 BPMDavid Bowie

MusicBrainz collapses 6 recording ids into this one. Recording id 138bd73d-7e15-4950-9ef8-16ae32888051.