Duran Duran · The Wild Boys
The Wild Boys
The Wild Boys is in E minor at 115.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
116 BPM · Moderatomedian of 187 analyses · 115.5–115.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 88%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 187people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 519milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.3Hz · +5 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.14dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.85Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.178Essentia'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
187 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 88% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 187 readings; 93% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 115.6 BPM one beat lasts 519 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 129.8 ms and a dotted eighth 389.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 57.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 231.2. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.3 Hz, which is 5 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 4.14 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 0.85 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 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 116 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2076.1 | 0.48 |
| Half note | 2 | 1038.1 | 0.96 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 778.5 | 1.28 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 519 | 1.93 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 346 | 2.89 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 389.3 | 2.57 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 259.5 | 3.85 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 173 | 5.78 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 194.6 | 5.14 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 129.8 | 7.71 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 86.5 | 11.56 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 64.9 | 15.41 |
Half time 57.8 BPM · double time 231.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (519 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- ExitU2E minor115BPM
- Grafton StreetDidoE minor116BPM
- RelaxFrankie Goes to HollywoodE minor115BPM
- lovelyBillie Eilish & KhalidE minor115BPM
- Veinte añosBuena Vista Social ClubE minor115BPM
- AjaSteely DanE minor117BPM
- March of the MeaniesGeorge Martin and His OrchestraE minor117BPM
- Blow Me (One Last Kiss)P!nkE minor114BPM
- Outside Woman BluesCreamE minor114BPM
- Time of the SeasonThe ZombiesE minor117BPM
Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 116 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E minorAll songs at 116 BPME minor at 110–119 BPMDuran Duran
MusicBrainz collapses 8 recording ids into this one. Recording id b1060368-d851-48f2-82a0-a25ce211e232.