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Don’t Stop Believin’
Don’t Stop Believin’ is in E major at 119.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
120 BPM · Moderatomedian of 388 analyses · 119.3–119.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 388people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 500.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.3Hz · +5 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.35dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.84Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.136Essentia'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
388 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 388 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 119.8 BPM one beat lasts 500.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 125.2 ms and a dotted eighth 375.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 59.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 239.6. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.3 Hz, which is 5 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 4.35 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 0.84 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 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 120 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2003.3 | 0.5 |
| Half note | 2 | 1001.7 | 1 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 751.3 | 1.33 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 500.8 | 2 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 333.9 | 3 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 375.6 | 2.66 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 250.4 | 3.99 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 166.9 | 5.99 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 187.8 | 5.32 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 125.2 | 7.99 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 83.5 | 11.98 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 62.6 | 15.97 |
Half time 59.9 BPM · double time 239.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (500.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Under the BoardwalkThe Rolling StonesE major120BPM
- Dark ParadiseLana Del ReyE major120BPM
- It’s So EasyLinda RonstadtE major120BPM
- Then You Look at MeCéline DionE major120BPM
- The LanguageDrakeE major120BPM
- Talk!The 1975E major120BPM
- DynamiteTaio CruzE major120BPM
- BlowKe$haE major120BPM
- Million Dollar BashBob Dylan & The BandE major120BPM
- DreamlandThe B‐52’sE major120BPM
Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 120 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E majorAll songs at 120 BPME major at 110–119 BPMJourney
MusicBrainz collapses 99 recording ids into this one. Recording id 93036a0a-0513-4d27-b384-4a5d9b674a37.