TempoPeek

David Bowie · The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars

Soul Love

Soul Love is in D major at 146.7 beats per minute.

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Tempo

147 BPM · Allegromedian of 176 analyses · 146.4–147 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
94%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
176people who ran the extractor
One beat
409milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
439.2Hz · -3 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.97dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.464Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.142Essentia'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

176 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 94% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 176 readings; 92% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 146.7 BPM one beat lasts 409 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 102.2 ms and a dotted eighth 306.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 73.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 293.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.2 Hz, which is 3 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 4.97 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 0.464 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 D 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 D major

Each of these differs from D 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 147 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note416360.61
Half note28181.22
Dotted quarter1.5613.51.63
Quarter note (one beat)14092.44
Quarter triplet0.667272.73.67
Dotted eighth0.75306.73.26
Eighth note0.5204.54.89
Eighth triplet0.333136.37.33
Dotted sixteenth0.375153.46.52
Sixteenth note0.25102.29.78
Sixteenth triplet0.16768.214.67
Thirty-second note0.12551.119.56

Half time 73.4 BPM · double time 293.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (409 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Rockaria!Electric Light OrchestraD major147BPM
  2. Annie’s SongJohn DenverD major147BPM
  3. Tiny VesselsDeath Cab for CutieD major147BPM
  4. Always on My MindWillie NelsonD major147BPM
  5. Closer to the HeartRushD major146BPM
  6. Love Will Tear Us ApartJoy DivisionD major147BPM
  7. Eon Blue ApocalypseToolD major147BPM
  8. Fake Plastic TreesRadioheadD major147BPM
  9. Out of TearsThe Rolling StonesD major147BPM
  10. LandslideDixie ChicksD major146BPM

Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 147 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D majorAll songs at 147 BPMD major at 140–149 BPMDavid Bowie

MusicBrainz collapses 15 recording ids into this one. Recording id e8afe383-1478-497e-90b1-7885c7f37f6e.