Eagles · Desperado
Saturday Night
Saturday Night is in G major at 100.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
101 BPM · Andantemedian of 233 analyses · 100.6–100.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 233people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 594.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 438Hz · -8 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.54dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.799Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.002Essentia'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
233 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 233 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 100.9 BPM one beat lasts 594.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 148.7 ms and a dotted eighth 446 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 50.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 201.8. A score would mark that Andante, 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 5.54 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 0.799 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 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 G major
Each of these differs from G 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 101 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2378.6 | 0.42 |
| Half note | 2 | 1189.3 | 0.84 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 892 | 1.12 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 594.6 | 1.68 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 396.4 | 2.52 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 446 | 2.24 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 297.3 | 3.36 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 198.2 | 5.05 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 223 | 4.48 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 148.7 | 6.73 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 99.1 | 10.09 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 74.3 | 13.45 |
Half time 50.5 BPM · double time 201.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (594.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- There Are Worse Things I Could DoStockard ChanningG major101BPM
- Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?The Rolling StonesG major101BPM
- The EntertainerBilly JoelG major101BPM
- Hey Now!OasisG major101BPM
- Do You Really Want to Hurt MeCulture ClubG major100BPM
- AdiemusAdiemusG major100BPM
- Just Like Tom Thumb’s BluesBob DylanG major100BPM
- Nothing Was DeliveredBob Dylan & The BandG major102BPM
- Peace on EarthU2G major102BPM
- Hands CleanAlanis MorissetteG major100BPM
Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 101 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G majorAll songs at 101 BPMG major at 100–109 BPMEagles
MusicBrainz collapses 11 recording ids into this one. Recording id 781489e9-478b-4ab2-9ec1-207ddff481c2.