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The Way You Look Tonight

The Way You Look Tonight is in E flat major at 132.4 beats per minute.

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Tempo

132 BPM · Allegromedian of 245 analyses · 132.1–132.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E♭ major3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
90%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
245people who ran the extractor
One beat
453.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441.8Hz · +7 cents from A 440
Dynamics
5.93dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.248Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.018Essentia'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

245 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 90% — put it in E flat major, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 245 readings; 93% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 132.4 BPM one beat lasts 453.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 113.3 ms and a dotted eighth 339.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 66.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 264.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.8 Hz, which is 7 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 5.93 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 0.248 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 E 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 E♭ major

Each of these differs from E♭ 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 132 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41812.70.55
Half note2906.31.1
Dotted quarter1.5679.81.47
Quarter note (one beat)1453.22.21
Quarter triplet0.667302.13.31
Dotted eighth0.75339.92.94
Eighth note0.5226.64.41
Eighth triplet0.333151.16.62
Dotted sixteenth0.375169.95.88
Sixteenth note0.25113.38.83
Sixteenth triplet0.16775.513.24
Thirty-second note0.12556.617.65

Half time 66.2 BPM · double time 264.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (453.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. The Way You Look TonightMichael BubléE♭ minor110BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. The Long and Winding RoadThe BeatlesE♭ major133BPM
  2. Afro (Freestyle skit)Erykah BaduE♭ major133BPM
  3. HarmonyElton JohnE♭ major132BPM
  4. Don’t Leave Me This WayCommunards with Sarah Jane MorrisE♭ major132BPM
  5. Come a Little Bit CloserJay and the AmericansE♭ major133BPM
  6. Marshmallow Attack!Tim DaviesE♭ major133BPM
  7. Lazing on a Sunday AfternoonQueenE♭ major132BPM
  8. BargainThe WhoE♭ major133BPM
  9. SatisfactionAretha FranklinE♭ major133BPM
  10. Dirty DianaMichael JacksonE♭ major131BPM

Recordings in E flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 132 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E flat majorAll songs at 132 BPME♭ major at 130–139 BPMFrank Sinatra

MusicBrainz collapses 17 recording ids into this one. Recording id 4e862215-6289-4eb9-924e-f63d140abe47.