TempoPeek

Depeche Mode · Violator

Clean

Clean is in B major at 122.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

123 BPM · Allegromedian of 146 analyses · 122.8–122.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B major5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
93%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
146people who ran the extractor
One beat
488.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441.3Hz · +5 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.25dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.906Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.205Essentia'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

146 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 93% — put it in B major, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 146 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 122.8 BPM one beat lasts 488.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 122.1 ms and a dotted eighth 366.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 61.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 245.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.3 Hz, which is 5 cents above 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 4.25 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 0.906 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 B 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 B major

Each of these differs from B 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 123 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41954.40.51
Half note2977.21.02
Dotted quarter1.5732.91.36
Quarter note (one beat)1488.62.05
Quarter triplet0.667325.73.07
Dotted eighth0.75366.42.73
Eighth note0.5244.34.09
Eighth triplet0.333162.96.14
Dotted sixteenth0.375183.25.46
Sixteenth note0.25122.18.19
Sixteenth triplet0.16781.412.28
Thirty-second note0.12561.116.37

Half time 61.4 BPM · double time 245.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (488.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. CleanTaylor SwiftE major104BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Born in the U.S.A.Bruce SpringsteenB major123BPM
  2. OuvertureDaft PunkB major123BPM
  3. Clearest BlueCHVRCHESB major123BPM
  4. Lady EvilBlack SabbathB major123BPM
  5. Sarah Yellin’3 Doors DownB major124BPM
  6. Last of the American GirlsGreen DayB major122BPM
  7. Let the Lower Lights Be BurningJohnny CashB major124BPM
  8. Don’t CryGuns N’ RosesB major124BPM
  9. VelouriaPixiesB major125BPM
  10. Funky ShitProdigyB major125BPM

Recordings in B major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 123 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B majorAll songs at 123 BPMB major at 120–129 BPMDepeche Mode

MusicBrainz collapses 25 recording ids into this one. Recording id 5da12e8c-3203-4f68-94ee-56e26e4457e0.