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(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction is in D minor at 102.2 beats per minute.

Tempo

102 BPM · Andantemedian of 180 analyses · 102.1–102.3 across the middle eight tenths

Key: D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement: 74%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses: 180people who ran the extractor
One beat: 587.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning: 443.3Hz · +13 cents from A 440
Dynamics: 3.24dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness: 0.97Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability: 1.751Essentia'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

180 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 74% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 180 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 102.2 BPM one beat lasts 587.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 146.8 ms and a dotted eighth 440.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 51.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 204.4. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 443.3 Hz, which is 13 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 3.24 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 0.97 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 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 D minor

Each of these differs from D 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 102 BPM

Note value	Beats	Milliseconds	Hertz
Whole note	4	2348.3	0.43
Half note	2	1174.2	0.85
Dotted quarter	1.5	880.6	1.14
Quarter note (one beat)	1	587.1	1.7
Quarter triplet	0.667	391.4	2.55
Dotted eighth	0.75	440.3	2.27
Eighth note	0.5	293.5	3.41
Eighth triplet	0.333	195.7	5.11
Dotted sixteenth	0.375	220.2	4.54
Sixteenth note	0.25	146.8	6.81
Sixteenth triplet	0.167	97.8	10.22
Thirty-second note	0.125	73.4	13.63

Half time 51.1 BPM · double time 204.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (587.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

(I Can’t Get No) SatisfactionThe Rolling StonesA major136BPM

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

Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 102 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D minor All songs at 102 BPM D minor at 100–109 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 20 recording ids into this one. Recording id ddb269cb-ccb5-4f03-87b2-cb5179bc6403.