Frank Sinatra & Count Basie · A Man and His Music
Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)
Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words) is in F major at 117.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
118 BPM · Moderatomedian of 331 analyses · 117.6–144.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 41%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 331people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 509.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 436Hz · -16 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 8.62dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.173Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.928Essentia'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
331 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Fewer than half of them — 41% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 331 readings; 84% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 117.6 to 144.6 BPM.
At 117.7 BPM one beat lasts 509.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 127.4 ms and a dotted eighth 382.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 58.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 235.4. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 436 Hz, which is 16 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 8.62 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 0.173 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 118 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2039.1 | 0.49 |
| Half note | 2 | 1019.5 | 0.98 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 764.7 | 1.31 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 509.8 | 1.96 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 339.8 | 2.94 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 382.3 | 2.62 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 254.9 | 3.92 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 169.9 | 5.89 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 191.2 | 5.23 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 127.4 | 7.85 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 85 | 11.77 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 63.7 | 15.69 |
Half time 58.9 BPM · double time 235.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (509.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Ain’t Nothing Like the Real ThingAretha FranklinF major118BPM
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- Niki HoekyAretha FranklinF major118BPM
- HeartbeatMadonnaF major118BPM
- What Have I Done to Deserve This?Pet Shop BoysF major118BPM
- The Prettiest StarDavid BowieF major118BPM
- Long Long Way to GoPhil CollinsF major117BPM
Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 118 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F majorAll songs at 118 BPMF major at 110–119 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 96e25e14-65be-47bb-971a-be6fd28c741f.