TempoPeek

Johnny Cash · Unearthed

I’m Movin’ On

I’m Movin’ On is in B major at 88.2 beats per minute.

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Tempo

88 BPM · Andantemedian of 127 analyses · 88.2–88.2 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B major5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
96%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
127people who ran the extractor
One beat
680.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
442.3Hz · +9 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.71dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.959Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.088Essentia'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

127 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in B major, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 127 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 88.2 BPM one beat lasts 680.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 170.1 ms and a dotted eighth 510.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 44.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 176.4. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442.3 Hz, which is 9 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 2.71 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 0.959 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 B 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 B major

Each of these differs from B 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 88 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42721.10.37
Half note21360.50.74
Dotted quarter1.51020.40.98
Quarter note (one beat)1680.31.47
Quarter triplet0.667453.52.21
Dotted eighth0.75510.21.96
Eighth note0.5340.12.94
Eighth triplet0.333226.84.41
Dotted sixteenth0.375255.13.92
Sixteenth note0.25170.15.88
Sixteenth triplet0.167113.48.82
Thirty-second note0.1258511.76

Half time 44.1 BPM · double time 176.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (680.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. I’m Movin’ OnRay CharlesC minor108BPM

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. King of HollywoodEaglesB major88BPM
  2. What Do I GetBuzzcocksB major88BPM
  3. NORTHFACE$NotB major89BPM
  4. YellowColdplayB major87BPM
  5. Crying in the RainDanzigB major90BPM
  6. Listen to Your HeartRoxetteB major86BPM
  7. You (Ha Ha Ha)Charli XCXB major91BPM
  8. Mr. KnightJohn ColtraneB major91BPM
  9. IronicAlanis MorissetteB major85BPM
  10. Blueberry HillFats DominoB major91BPM

Recordings in B major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 88 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B majorAll songs at 88 BPMB major at 80–89 BPMJohnny Cash

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 5b26284a-2528-4ffe-8b45-2c9ca4b2dd10.