Dido · No Angel
My Life
My Life is in G minor at 140.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
141 BPM · Allegromedian of 147 analyses · 94.1–141.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G minor2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 97%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 147people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 425.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 438Hz · -8 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 8.02dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.231Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.94Essentia'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
147 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in G minor, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 147 readings; 83% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 94.1 to 141.1 BPM.
At 140.9 BPM one beat lasts 425.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 106.5 ms and a dotted eighth 319.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 70.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 281.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438 Hz, which is 8 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 8.02 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 0.231 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 G 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 G minor
Each of these differs from G 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 141 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1703.3 | 0.59 |
| Half note | 2 | 851.7 | 1.17 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 638.8 | 1.57 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 425.8 | 2.35 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 283.9 | 3.52 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 319.4 | 3.13 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 212.9 | 4.7 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 141.9 | 7.05 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 159.7 | 6.26 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 106.5 | 9.39 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 71 | 14.09 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 53.2 | 18.79 |
Half time 70.5 BPM · double time 281.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (425.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Heart Full of SoulThe YardbirdsG minor141BPM
- MoondanceMichael BubléG minor141BPM
- Hand of DoomBlack SabbathG minor142BPM
- Love Don’t Live Here AnymoreMadonnaG minor140BPM
- MythBeach HouseG minor142BPM
- The WhispererDavid Guetta feat. SiaG minor143BPM
- Get Down, Make LoveQueenG minor144BPM
- Shine On You Crazy DiamondPink FloydG minor144BPM
- PlushStone Temple PilotsG minor144BPM
- Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?Bryan AdamsG minor145BPM
Recordings in G minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 141 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G minorAll songs at 141 BPMG minor at 140–149 BPMDido
MusicBrainz collapses 6 recording ids into this one. Recording id 114082b9-8671-4dff-93fc-a60cbe731702.