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Boogie Nights

Boogie Nights is in E minor at 118.5 beats per minute.

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Tempo

119 BPM · Moderatomedian of 183 analyses · 118.3–119.8 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
89%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
183people who ran the extractor
One beat
506.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.82dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.884Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.295Essentia'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

183 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 89% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 183 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 118.3 to 119.8 BPM.

At 118.5 BPM one beat lasts 506.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 126.6 ms and a dotted eighth 379.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 59.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 237. A score would mark that Moderato, 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 3.82 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 0.884 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 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 E minor

Each of these differs from E 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 119 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42025.30.49
Half note21012.70.99
Dotted quarter1.5759.51.32
Quarter note (one beat)1506.31.98
Quarter triplet0.667337.62.96
Dotted eighth0.75379.72.63
Eighth note0.5253.23.95
Eighth triplet0.333168.85.93
Dotted sixteenth0.375189.95.27
Sixteenth note0.25126.67.9
Sixteenth triplet0.16784.411.85
Thirty-second note0.12563.315.8

Half time 59.3 BPM · double time 237 BPM. Every row is one beat (506.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. StrangeloveDepeche ModeE minor119BPM
  2. For All the CowsFoo FightersE minor118BPM
  3. Beds Are BurningMidnight OilE minor119BPM
  4. The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)The DoorsE minor120BPM
  5. Time of the SeasonThe ZombiesE minor117BPM
  6. Invisible ChoirsScannerE minor120BPM
  7. March of the MeaniesGeorge Martin and His OrchestraE minor117BPM
  8. AjaSteely DanE minor117BPM
  9. DiscothèqueU2E minor120BPM
  10. Orange CrushR.E.M.E minor121BPM

Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 119 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E minorAll songs at 119 BPME minor at 110–119 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 143 recording ids into this one. Recording id 62003225-5387-4fd6-bb38-6ee688427308.