Genesis · Genesis
Mama
Mama is in A major at 110.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
110 BPM · Moderatomedian of 245 analyses · 82.9–110.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 88%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 245people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 544milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441Hz · +4 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.95dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.572Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.064Essentia'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 — 88% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 245 readings; 69% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 82.9 to 110.5 BPM.
At 110.3 BPM one beat lasts 544 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 136 ms and a dotted eighth 408 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 55.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 220.6. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441 Hz, which is 4 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 4.95 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 0.572 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 A 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 A major
Each of these differs from A 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 110 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2175.9 | 0.46 |
| Half note | 2 | 1087.9 | 0.92 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 816 | 1.23 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 544 | 1.84 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 362.6 | 2.76 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 408 | 2.45 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 272 | 3.68 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 181.3 | 5.52 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 204 | 4.9 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 136 | 7.35 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 90.7 | 11.03 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 68 | 14.71 |
Half time 55.2 BPM · double time 220.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (544 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
The same title by somebody else
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
- Bring the NoisePublic EnemyA major110BPM
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- NumbLinkin ParkA major110BPM
- Worst BehaviorDrakeA major110BPM
- The Answer to Our LifeBackstreet BoysA major110BPM
- Kelly Watch the StarsAirA major110BPM
- Miss GradenkoThe PoliceA major110BPM
- Let’s Get It UpAC/DCA major110BPM
- The MonsterEminem ft. RihannaA major110BPM
- Mr Rock & RollAmy MacdonaldA major111BPM
Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 110 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A majorAll songs at 110 BPMA major at 110–119 BPMGenesis
MusicBrainz collapses 147 recording ids into this one. Recording id c54bd65c-ad9a-4378-9705-be45d4979e91.