Madonna · Confessions on a Dance Floor
Future Lovers
Future Lovers is in D minor at 124 beats per minute.
Tempo
124 BPM · Allegromedian of 168 analyses · 123.9–124 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 168people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 483.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.46dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.647Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.081Essentia'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
168 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 168 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 124 BPM one beat lasts 483.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 121 ms and a dotted eighth 362.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 62 BPM, counted twice as fast 248. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 2.46 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 0.647 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 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 D minor
Each of these differs from D 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 124 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1935.5 | 0.52 |
| Half note | 2 | 967.7 | 1.03 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 725.8 | 1.38 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 483.9 | 2.07 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 322.6 | 3.1 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 362.9 | 2.76 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 241.9 | 4.13 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 161.3 | 6.2 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 181.5 | 5.51 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 121 | 8.27 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 80.6 | 12.4 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 60.5 | 16.53 |
Half time 62 BPM · double time 248 BPM. Every row is one beat (483.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
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- Forward/BackwardApparatD minor123BPM
- Lay Me DownAviciiD minor125BPM
- Rock That BodyThe Black Eyed PeasD minor125BPM
- Hung UpMadonnaD minor125BPM
- Mozart’s HouseClean Bandit feat. Love SsegaD minor125BPM
- Behind the WheelDepeche ModeD minor125BPM
Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 124 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D minorAll songs at 124 BPMD minor at 120–129 BPMMadonna
MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id bd3b1c68-e489-448c-8e0f-4ca2874e253a.