Emery · …In Shallow Seas We Sail
Edge of the World
Edge of the World is in F minor at 164.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
165 BPM · Vivacemedian of 131 analyses · 164.7–164.8 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F minor4 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 131people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 364.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.15dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.964Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.166Essentia'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
131 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in F minor, a key signature of 4 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 131 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 164.8 BPM one beat lasts 364.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 91 ms and a dotted eighth 273.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 82.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 329.6. A score would mark that Vivace, 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 2.15 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 0.964 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 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 F minor
Each of these differs from F 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 165 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1456.3 | 0.69 |
| Half note | 2 | 728.2 | 1.37 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 546.1 | 1.83 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 364.1 | 2.75 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 242.7 | 4.12 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 273.1 | 3.66 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 182 | 5.49 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 121.4 | 8.24 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 136.5 | 7.32 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 91 | 10.99 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 60.7 | 16.48 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 45.5 | 21.97 |
Half time 82.4 BPM · double time 329.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (364.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- BrianstormArctic MonkeysF minor165BPM
- Walk on WaterNeil DiamondF minor165BPM
- Mack the KnifeMichael BubléF minor164BPM
- Sing for the MomentEminemF minor164BPM
- What’s This?Danny ElfmanF minor163BPM
- Yes / Chinese Sleep ChantColdplayF minor162BPM
- Royal PursuitTim DaviesF minor162BPM
- HappyPharrell WilliamsF minor162BPM
- PolitikColdplayF minor172BPM
- A Nigga Witta GunDr. DreF minor172BPM
Recordings in F minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 165 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F minorAll songs at 165 BPMF minor at 160–169 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id ff39be83-e894-4d3b-a842-f742f2ec2a3a.