Dido · No Angel
Isobel
Isobel is in E flat minor at 136 beats per minute.
Tempo
136 BPM · Allegromedian of 144 analyses · 136–136.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E♭ minor6 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 96%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 144people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 441.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.51dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.713Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.052Essentia'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
144 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in E flat minor, a key signature of 6 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 144 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 136 BPM one beat lasts 441.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 110.3 ms and a dotted eighth 330.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 68 BPM, counted twice as fast 272. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.3 Hz, which is 1 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 4.51 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 0.713 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 E flat 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 E♭ minor
Each of these differs from E♭ 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 136 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1764.7 | 0.57 |
| Half note | 2 | 882.4 | 1.13 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 661.8 | 1.51 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 441.2 | 2.27 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 294.1 | 3.4 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 330.9 | 3.02 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 220.6 | 4.53 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 147.1 | 6.8 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 165.4 | 6.04 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 110.3 | 9.07 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 73.5 | 13.6 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 55.1 | 18.13 |
Half time 68 BPM · double time 272 BPM. Every row is one beat (441.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
The same title by somebody else
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
- BiscuitPortisheadE♭ minor136BPM
- Alive 1997Daft PunkE♭ minor136BPM
- Le vol d’un angeCéline DionE♭ minor134BPM
- Beat ItMichael JacksonE♭ minor139BPM
- Make LoveDaft PunkE♭ minor133BPM
- A Place for My HeadLinkin ParkE♭ minor133BPM
- Civil WarGuns N’ RosesE♭ minor140BPM
- Shanti / AshtangiMadonnaE♭ minor140BPM
- Kiss KissChris Brown feat. T‐PainE♭ minor140BPM
- Ace of SpadesMotörheadE♭ minor140BPM
Recordings in E flat minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 136 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E flat minorAll songs at 136 BPME♭ minor at 130–139 BPMDido
MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id 08949860-3e17-4e8b-8a3d-58c5a4c2a9c1.