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Open Arms
Open Arms is in D major at 103 beats per minute.
Tempo
103 BPM · Andantemedian of 303 analyses · 102.7–103.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 70%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 303people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 582.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 443.8Hz · +15 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 7.58dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.28Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.992Essentia'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
303 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 70% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 303 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 103 BPM one beat lasts 582.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 145.6 ms and a dotted eighth 436.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 51.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 206. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 443.8 Hz, which is 15 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 7.58 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 0.28 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 D 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 D major
Each of these differs from D 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 103 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2330.1 | 0.43 |
| Half note | 2 | 1165 | 0.86 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 873.8 | 1.14 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 582.5 | 1.72 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 388.3 | 2.58 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 436.9 | 2.29 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 291.3 | 3.43 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 194.2 | 5.15 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 218.4 | 4.58 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 145.6 | 6.87 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 97.1 | 10.3 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 72.8 | 13.73 |
Half time 51.5 BPM · double time 206 BPM. Every row is one beat (582.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Something Just Like ThisThe Chainsmokers & ColdplayD major103BPM
- When the Body SpeaksDepeche ModeD major103BPM
- In My LifeThe BeatlesD major103BPM
- In My Time of DyingLed ZeppelinD major102BPM
- Creature FearBon IverD major104BPM
- JoyrideRoxetteD major102BPM
- Goodbye Cruel WorldPink FloydD major102BPM
- Get TogetherThe YoungbloodsD major104BPM
- To Live Is to DieMetallicaD major104BPM
- TryP!nkD major104BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 103 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 103 BPMD major at 100–109 BPMJourney
MusicBrainz collapses 85 recording ids into this one. Recording id 725024b2-4698-4550-9749-a3176c25eb81.