Eagle‐Eye Cherry · Desireless
Save Tonight
Save Tonight is in F major at 119.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
120 BPM · Moderatomedian of 173 analyses · 119.5–119.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 173people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 502.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.24dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.928Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.034Essentia'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
173 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 173 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 119.5 BPM one beat lasts 502.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 125.5 ms and a dotted eighth 376.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 59.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 239. A score would mark that Moderato, 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 4.24 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 0.928 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 F 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 F major
Each of these differs from F 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 120 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2008.4 | 0.5 |
| Half note | 2 | 1004.2 | 1 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 753.1 | 1.33 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 502.1 | 1.99 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 334.7 | 2.99 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 376.6 | 2.66 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 251 | 3.98 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 167.4 | 5.98 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 188.3 | 5.31 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 125.5 | 7.97 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 83.7 | 11.95 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 62.8 | 15.93 |
Half time 59.8 BPM · double time 239 BPM. Every row is one beat (502.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- DesafinadoStan Getz/Charlie ByrdF major120BPM
- Adore YouMiley CyrusF major120BPM
- One More TryGeorge MichaelF major119BPM
- Garador's FlightJo BlankenburgF major120BPM
- Walking ByDidoF major120BPM
- Sad GirlLana Del ReyF major120BPM
- Peter GunnThe Art of Noise featuring Duane EddyF major120BPM
- Give Life Back to MusicDaft Punk feat. Nile RodgersF major119BPM
- NightvisionDaft PunkF major120BPM
- I Like It RoughLady GagaF major120BPM
Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 120 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F majorAll songs at 120 BPMF major at 110–119 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 50 recording ids into this one. Recording id d8a837d1-886d-44e4-aa72-d19e61180b3b.