TempoPeek

Ella Fitzgerald · Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook, Volume 1

Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye

Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye is in B flat major at 79.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

80 BPM · Andantemedian of 134 analyses · 79.5–80 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B♭ major2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
96%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
134people who ran the extractor
One beat
751.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
445.6Hz · +22 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.03dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.567Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.986Essentia'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

134 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in B flat major, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 134 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 79.8 BPM one beat lasts 751.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 188 ms and a dotted eighth 563.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 39.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 159.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 445.6 Hz, which is 22 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 0.567 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 B flat 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 B♭ major

Each of these differs from B♭ 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 80 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note43007.50.33
Half note21503.80.66
Dotted quarter1.51127.80.89
Quarter note (one beat)1751.91.33
Quarter triplet0.667501.32
Dotted eighth0.75563.91.77
Eighth note0.5375.92.66
Eighth triplet0.333250.63.99
Dotted sixteenth0.3752823.55
Sixteenth note0.251885.32
Sixteenth triplet0.167125.37.98
Thirty-second note0.1259410.64

Half time 39.9 BPM · double time 159.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (751.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. rockstarPost Malone feat. 21 SavageB♭ major80BPM
  2. I’m Not the Only OneSam SmithB♭ major82BPM
  3. No LoveErykah BaduB♭ major82BPM
  4. It Was a Good DayIce CubeB♭ major82BPM
  5. Weather StormCraig ArmstrongB♭ major82BPM
  6. High PoweredDr. DreB♭ major76BPM
  7. Circle of LifeCarmen Twillie, African vocals by Lebo MB♭ major84BPM
  8. Broken‐Hearted GirlBeyoncéB♭ major84BPM
  9. For Once in My LifeFrank SinatraB♭ major84BPM
  10. Almost FamousEminemB♭ major84BPM

Recordings in B flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 80 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B flat majorAll songs at 80 BPMB♭ major at 70–79 BPMElla Fitzgerald

MusicBrainz collapses 43 recording ids into this one. Recording id 21f02c2b-ee2d-4126-9a4e-bf0bec535910.