Kelly Clarkson · Breakaway

Because of You

Because of You is in A flat major at 139.9 beats per minute.

Tempo

140 BPM · Allegromedian of 333 analyses · 139.8–139.9 across the middle eight tenths

Key: A♭ major4 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement: 98%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses: 333people who ran the extractor
One beat: 428.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning: 440Hz · 0 cents from A 440
Dynamics: 4.89dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness: 0.855Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability: 1.137Essentia'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

333 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in A flat major, a key signature of 4 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 333 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 139.9 BPM one beat lasts 428.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 107.2 ms and a dotted eighth 321.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 70 BPM, counted twice as fast 279.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440 Hz, which is 0 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 4.89 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 0.855 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 A 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 A♭ major

Each of these differs from A♭ 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 140 BPM

Note value	Beats	Milliseconds	Hertz
Whole note	4	1715.5	0.58
Half note	2	857.8	1.17
Dotted quarter	1.5	643.3	1.55
Quarter note (one beat)	1	428.9	2.33
Quarter triplet	0.667	285.9	3.5
Dotted eighth	0.75	321.7	3.11
Eighth note	0.5	214.4	4.66
Eighth triplet	0.333	143	7
Dotted sixteenth	0.375	160.8	6.22
Sixteenth note	0.25	107.2	9.33
Sixteenth triplet	0.167	71.5	13.99
Thirty-second note	0.125	53.6	18.65

Half time 70 BPM · double time 279.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (428.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

Because of YouTony BennettE♭ minor172BPM

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

Recordings in A flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 140 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A flat major All songs at 140 BPM A♭ major at 130–139 BPM Kelly Clarkson

MusicBrainz collapses 9 recording ids into this one. Recording id cd52b2b1-28d4-4885-9f1d-b44b8caf07f7.