Journey · Trial by Fire
When You Love a Woman
When You Love a Woman is in D flat major at 132.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
132 BPM · Allegromedian of 169 analyses · 132–132.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D♭ major5 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 169people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 453.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.5Hz · +6 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.85dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.607Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.961Essentia'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
169 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in D flat major, a key signature of 5 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 169 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 132.2 BPM one beat lasts 453.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 113.5 ms and a dotted eighth 340.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 66.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 264.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.5 Hz, which is 6 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 4.85 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 0.607 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 flat 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 132 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1815.4 | 0.55 |
| Half note | 2 | 907.7 | 1.1 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 680.8 | 1.47 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 453.9 | 2.2 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 302.6 | 3.31 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 340.4 | 2.94 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 226.9 | 4.41 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 151.3 | 6.61 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 170.2 | 5.88 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 113.5 | 8.81 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 75.6 | 13.22 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 56.7 | 17.63 |
Half time 66.1 BPM · double time 264.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (453.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Read My MindThe KillersD♭ major132BPM
- One by OneEnyaD♭ major132BPM
- Sweet but PsychoAva MaxD♭ major133BPM
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for YouBryan AdamsD♭ major131BPM
- I Will WaitMumford & SonsD♭ major131BPM
- SoolaimònNeil DiamondD♭ major131BPM
- Video Killed the Radio StarBugglesD♭ major131BPM
- The Girl From IpanemaStan Getz / João Gilberto featuring Antônio Carlos JobimD♭ major130BPM
- Dreaming of MeDepeche ModeD♭ major134BPM
- Our Lips Are SealedGo‐Go’sD♭ major130BPM
Recordings in D flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 132 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D flat majorAll songs at 132 BPMD♭ major at 130–139 BPMJourney
MusicBrainz collapses 7 recording ids into this one. Recording id dccc7aae-5297-4c6e-bdd3-aa75158bebe8.