David Bowie · Space Oddity
Janine
Janine is in G minor at 89.2 beats per minute.
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 value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2690.6 | 0.37 |
| Half note | 2 | 1345.3 | 0.74 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1009 | 0.99 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 672.6 | 1.49 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 448.4 | 2.23 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 504.5 | 1.98 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 336.3 | 2.97 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 224.2 | 4.46 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 252.2 | 3.96 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 168.2 | 5.95 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 112.1 | 8.92 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 84.1 | 11.89 |
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
- If We Could Start OverCéline DionG minor89BPM
- Seduces MeCéline DionG minor89BPM
- Alone in KyotoAirG minor90BPM
- Dream a Little Dream of MeLouis ArmstrongG minor91BPM
- BlurThriceG minor91BPM
- The National AnthemRadioheadG minor92BPM
- IncarcerationScannerG minor86BPM
- Careful With That Axe, EugenePink FloydG minor92BPM
- Paper PlanesM.I.A.G minor86BPM
- 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.