Duran Duran · Duran Duran
Ordinary World
Ordinary World is in E major at 140.1 beats per minute.
Tempo
140 BPM · Allegromedian of 127 analyses · 140–140.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 127people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 428.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.8Hz · +3 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.821Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.016Essentia'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
127 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 127 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 140.1 BPM one beat lasts 428.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 107.1 ms and a dotted eighth 321.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 70.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 280.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.8 Hz, which is 3 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 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 0.821 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 major; 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 major
Each of these differs from E major 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 140 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1713.1 | 0.58 |
| Half note | 2 | 856.5 | 1.17 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 642.4 | 1.56 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 428.3 | 2.34 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 285.5 | 3.5 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 321.2 | 3.11 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 214.1 | 4.67 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 142.8 | 7.01 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 160.6 | 6.23 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 107.1 | 9.34 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 71.4 | 14.01 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 53.5 | 18.68 |
Half time 70.1 BPM · double time 280.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (428.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- MelissaThe Allman Brothers BandE major140BPM
- Para qué la vidaEnrique IglesiasE major140BPM
- Shadow on the SunAudioslaveE major140BPM
- Come AliveFoo FightersE major140BPM
- If Not for YouBob DylanE major140BPM
- ShatteredThe Rolling StonesE major140BPM
- Drowned World/Substitute for LoveMadonnaE major140BPM
- The Right ProfileThe ClashE major141BPM
- RioDuran DuranE major141BPM
- Wonderous StoriesYesE major141BPM
Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 140 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E majorAll songs at 140 BPME major at 140–149 BPMDuran Duran
MusicBrainz collapses 108 recording ids into this one. Recording id fe6bb919-b5d5-4e59-a096-4eda7ba4e504.