TempoPeek

Duran Duran · Duran Duran

Girls on Film

Girls on Film is in A minor at 131.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

132 BPM · Allegromedian of 211 analyses · 129.6–132 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
97%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
211people who ran the extractor
One beat
454.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.11dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.783Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.337Essentia'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

211 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 211 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 129.6 to 132 BPM.

At 131.9 BPM one beat lasts 454.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 113.7 ms and a dotted eighth 341.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 66 BPM, counted twice as fast 263.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 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 4.11 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 0.783 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 A 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 A minor

Each of these differs from A 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 132 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41819.60.55
Half note2909.81.1
Dotted quarter1.5682.31.47
Quarter note (one beat)1454.92.2
Quarter triplet0.667303.33.3
Dotted eighth0.75341.22.93
Eighth note0.5227.44.4
Eighth triplet0.333151.66.6
Dotted sixteenth0.375170.65.86
Sixteenth note0.25113.78.79
Sixteenth triplet0.16775.813.19
Thirty-second note0.12556.917.59

Half time 66 BPM · double time 263.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (454.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. PiggyNine Inch NailsA minor132BPM
  2. Around the World (La La La La La)ATCA minor132BPM
  3. Sense of DoubtDavid BowieA minor132BPM
  4. El mañanaGorillazA minor132BPM
  5. HelloOasisA minor132BPM
  6. I Can See for MilesThe WhoA minor131BPM
  7. I Want It AllArctic MonkeysA minor131BPM
  8. Everything’s Coming Our WaySantanaA minor133BPM
  9. Line UpAerosmithA minor133BPM
  10. TalismanAirA minor133BPM

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 132 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minorAll songs at 132 BPMA minor at 130–139 BPMDuran Duran

MusicBrainz collapses 83 recording ids into this one. Recording id d552f3dd-fde2-4c74-bdf4-99741618f1f1.