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Soldier

Soldier is in B minor at 77.5 beats per minute.

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Tempo

78 BPM · Andantemedian of 128 analyses · 77.5–77.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B minor2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
98%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
128people who ran the extractor
One beat
774.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
448.2Hz · +32 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.94dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.955Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.57Essentia'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

128 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in B minor, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 128 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 77.5 BPM one beat lasts 774.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 193.5 ms and a dotted eighth 580.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 38.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 155. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 448.2 Hz, which is 32 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 4.94 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 0.955 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 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 B minor

Each of these differs from B 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 78 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note43096.80.32
Half note21548.40.65
Dotted quarter1.51161.30.86
Quarter note (one beat)1774.21.29
Quarter triplet0.667516.11.94
Dotted eighth0.75580.61.72
Eighth note0.5387.12.58
Eighth triplet0.333258.13.88
Dotted sixteenth0.375290.33.44
Sixteenth note0.25193.55.17
Sixteenth triplet0.1671297.75
Thirty-second note0.12596.810.33

Half time 38.8 BPM · double time 155 BPM. Every row is one beat (774.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. SoldierErykah BaduB minor93BPM
  2. SoldierEminemE♭ major95BPM

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. Darling NikkiPrince and The RevolutionB minor78BPM
  2. Patiently Waiting50 Cent feat. EminemB minor79BPM
  3. Wandering StarPortisheadB minor80BPM
  4. The Show Must Go OnQueenB minor84BPM
  5. StrangersPortisheadB minor84BPM
  6. I Can’t Tell You WhyEaglesB minor85BPM
  7. Heaven HelpLenny KravitzB minor86BPM
  8. 10 BandsDrakeB minor87BPM
  9. Hands UpThe Black Eyed PeasB minor87BPM
  10. Alone Again OrLoveB minor87BPM

Recordings in B minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 78 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B minorAll songs at 78 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 5 recording ids into this one. Recording id 312ee3af-0036-44ca-a3b5-cdd74aef9828.