David Bowie · Space Oddity

Janine

Janine is in G minor at 89.2 beats per minute.

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Tempo

89 BPM · Andantemedian of 279 analyses · 89.1–89.3 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G minor2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
72%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
279people who ran the extractor
One beat
672.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
439Hz · -4 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.62dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.765Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.033Essentia'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

279 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 72% — put it in G minor, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 279 readings; 95% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 89.2 BPM one beat lasts 672.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 168.2 ms and a dotted eighth 504.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 44.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 178.4. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439 Hz, which is 4 cents below 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 5.62 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 0.765 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 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 G minor

Each of these differs from G 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 89 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42690.60.37
Half note21345.30.74
Dotted quarter1.510090.99
Quarter note (one beat)1672.61.49
Quarter triplet0.667448.42.23
Dotted eighth0.75504.51.98
Eighth note0.5336.32.97
Eighth triplet0.333224.24.46
Dotted sixteenth0.375252.23.96
Sixteenth note0.25168.25.95
Sixteenth triplet0.167112.18.92
Thirty-second note0.12584.111.89

Half time 44.6 BPM · double time 178.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (672.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. If We Could Start OverCéline DionG minor89BPM
  2. Seduces MeCéline DionG minor89BPM
  3. Alone in KyotoAirG minor90BPM
  4. Dream a Little Dream of MeLouis ArmstrongG minor91BPM
  5. BlurThriceG minor91BPM
  6. The National AnthemRadioheadG minor92BPM
  7. IncarcerationScannerG minor86BPM
  8. Careful With That Axe, EugenePink FloydG minor92BPM
  9. Paper PlanesM.I.A.G minor86BPM
  10. On/OffDaft PunkG minor86BPM

Recordings in G minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 89 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G minorAll songs at 89 BPMG minor at 80–89 BPMDavid Bowie

MusicBrainz collapses 8 recording ids into this one. Recording id 6218e182-1ba8-4a18-980b-afecb2ce0b60.