TempoPeek

Earth, Wind & Fire with The Emotions · I Am

Boogie Wonderland

Boogie Wonderland is in D minor at 131.7 beats per minute.

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Tempo

132 BPM · Allegromedian of 347 analyses · 108.2–131.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
82%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
347people who ran the extractor
One beat
455.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
444.1Hz · +16 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.03dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.885Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.497Essentia'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

347 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 82% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 347 readings; 83% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 108.2 to 131.9 BPM.

At 131.7 BPM one beat lasts 455.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 113.9 ms and a dotted eighth 341.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 65.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 263.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 444.1 Hz, which is 16 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 4.03 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 0.885 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 D 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 D minor

Each of these differs from D 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 note41822.30.55
Half note2911.21.1
Dotted quarter1.5683.41.46
Quarter note (one beat)1455.62.19
Quarter triplet0.667303.73.29
Dotted eighth0.75341.72.93
Eighth note0.5227.84.39
Eighth triplet0.333151.96.59
Dotted sixteenth0.375170.85.85
Sixteenth note0.25113.98.78
Sixteenth triplet0.16775.913.17
Thirty-second note0.12556.917.56

Half time 65.9 BPM · double time 263.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (455.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. RectifierDaft PunkD minor132BPM
  2. Family ManDaryl Hall & John OatesD minor131BPM
  3. Cotton Eye JoeRednexD minor132BPM
  4. In a LifetimeClannad & BonoD minor133BPM
  5. Move OverJanis JoplinD minor133BPM
  6. The Devil Went Down to GeorgiaThe Charlie Daniels BandD minor133BPM
  7. Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)Def LeppardD minor133BPM
  8. It Ain’t EasyDavid BowieD minor133BPM
  9. Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)Billy JoelD minor133BPM
  10. Lay All Your Love on MeABBAD minor133BPM

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

All songs in D minorAll songs at 132 BPMD minor at 130–139 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 21 recording ids into this one. Recording id 3028090e-cc36-4786-92bb-b3a940db4f7e.