Madonna · Erotica
Erotica
Erotica is in B flat minor at 101.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
102 BPM · Andantemedian of 134 analyses · 101.8–101.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B♭ minor5 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 90%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 134people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 588.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.8dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.972Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.542Essentia'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
134 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 90% — put it in B flat minor, a key signature of 5 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 134 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 101.9 BPM one beat lasts 588.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 147.2 ms and a dotted eighth 441.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 51 BPM, counted twice as fast 203.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 cents below 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 3.8 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 0.972 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 flat minor; 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♭ minor
Each of these differs from B♭ minor 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 102 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2355.3 | 0.42 |
| Half note | 2 | 1177.6 | 0.85 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 883.2 | 1.13 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 588.8 | 1.7 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 392.5 | 2.55 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 441.6 | 2.26 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 294.4 | 3.4 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 196.3 | 5.1 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 220.8 | 4.53 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 147.2 | 6.79 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 98.1 | 10.19 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 73.6 | 13.59 |
Half time 51 BPM · double time 203.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (588.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Get It TogetherBeastie BoysB♭ minor101BPM
- Get LowLil Jon & The East Side Boyz feat. Ying Yang TwinsB♭ minor101BPM
- The MottoDrake feat. Lil WayneB♭ minor101BPM
- Own ItDrakeB♭ minor103BPM
- Would?Alice in ChainsB♭ minor103BPM
- The Narrow Way, Part 2David GilmourB♭ minor103BPM
- Talk DirtyJason Derulo feat. 2 ChainzB♭ minor100BPM
- My Toy Soldier50 Cent feat. Tony YayoB♭ minor104BPM
- Nobody Knows You (When You’re Down and Out)Otis ReddingB♭ minor104BPM
- One DanceDrake feat. WizKid & KylaB♭ minor104BPM
Recordings in B flat minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 102 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B flat minorAll songs at 102 BPMB♭ minor at 100–109 BPMMadonna
MusicBrainz collapses 27 recording ids into this one. Recording id 52118975-53d6-4e7d-a15a-d927ac6334a0.