TempoPeek

David Bowie · Station to Station

TVC 15

TVC 15 is in C major at 113.2 beats per minute.

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Tempo

113 BPM · Moderatomedian of 319 analyses · 112.5–113.7 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
319people who ran the extractor
One beat
530milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441Hz · +4 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.29dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.686Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.38Essentia'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

319 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 319 readings; 93% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 112.5 to 113.7 BPM.

At 113.2 BPM one beat lasts 530 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 132.5 ms and a dotted eighth 397.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 56.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 226.4. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441 Hz, which is 4 cents above 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 4.29 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 0.686 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 113 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42120.10.47
Half note21060.10.94
Dotted quarter1.5795.11.26
Quarter note (one beat)15301.89
Quarter triplet0.667353.42.83
Dotted eighth0.75397.52.52
Eighth note0.52653.77
Eighth triplet0.333176.75.66
Dotted sixteenth0.375198.85.03
Sixteenth note0.25132.57.55
Sixteenth triplet0.16788.311.32
Thirty-second note0.12566.315.09

Half time 56.6 BPM · double time 226.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (530 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Heartache TonightEaglesC major113BPM
  2. Little ThingsBushC major113BPM
  3. RunningNo DoubtC major113BPM
  4. Dramatic ThemePink FloydC major113BPM
  5. It’s Only LoveThe BeatlesC major113BPM
  6. Drink in My HandEric ChurchC major113BPM
  7. Wrote a Song for EveryoneCreedence Clearwater RevivalC major113BPM
  8. HatefulThe ClashC major113BPM
  9. Walking AloneGreen DayC major113BPM
  10. MistakesAndra DayC major113BPM

Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 113 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C majorAll songs at 113 BPMC major at 110–119 BPMDavid Bowie

MusicBrainz collapses 60 recording ids into this one. Recording id 221f52a7-e4f4-42f1-9211-4240c9cee4c1.