David Guetta feat. John Legend · Listen
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Listen is in C major at 129.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
130 BPM · Allegromedian of 154 analyses · 129.8–129.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 154people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 461.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.27dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.763Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.024Essentia'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
154 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 154 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 129.9 BPM one beat lasts 461.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 115.5 ms and a dotted eighth 346.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 65 BPM, counted twice as fast 259.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 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 4.27 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 0.763 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 130 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1847.6 | 0.54 |
| Half note | 2 | 923.8 | 1.08 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 692.8 | 1.44 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 461.9 | 2.17 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 307.9 | 3.25 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 346.4 | 2.89 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 230.9 | 4.33 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 154 | 6.5 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 173.2 | 5.77 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 115.5 | 8.66 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 77 | 12.99 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 57.7 | 17.32 |
Half time 65 BPM · double time 259.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (461.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- MercyDuffyC major130BPM
- Do You Realize??The Flaming LipsC major130BPM
- LuckyJason Mraz feat. Colbie CaillatC major130BPM
- Walking in MemphisMarc CohnC major130BPM
- Never Be the SameCamila CabelloC major130BPM
- Sneaky FeelingsElvis CostelloC major130BPM
- Above and BeyondPaul DinletirC major130BPM
- Danza kuduroLucenzo feat. Don OmarC major130BPM
- Coachella — Woodstock in My MindLana Del ReyC major130BPM
- New DawnCéline DionC major130BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 130 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 130 BPMC major at 120–129 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 779de4fb-82f6-4fcf-9eb5-b66ae86fb603.