TempoPeek

Madonna · Like a Virgin

Over and Over

Over and Over is in B flat minor at 116 beats per minute.

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Tempo

116 BPM · Moderatomedian of 176 analyses · 115.9–149.2 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B♭ minor5 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
82%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
176people who ran the extractor
One beat
517.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.35dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.911Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.49Essentia'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

176 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 82% — put it in B flat minor, a key signature of 5 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 176 readings; 82% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 115.9 to 149.2 BPM.

At 116 BPM one beat lasts 517.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 129.3 ms and a dotted eighth 387.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 58 BPM, counted twice as fast 232. A score would mark that Moderato, 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 4.35 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 0.911 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 116 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note420690.48
Half note21034.50.97
Dotted quarter1.5775.91.29
Quarter note (one beat)1517.21.93
Quarter triplet0.667344.82.9
Dotted eighth0.75387.92.58
Eighth note0.5258.63.87
Eighth triplet0.333172.45.8
Dotted sixteenth0.3751945.16
Sixteenth note0.25129.37.73
Sixteenth triplet0.16786.211.6
Thirty-second note0.12564.715.47

Half time 58 BPM · double time 232 BPM. Every row is one beat (517.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. Over and OverBlack SabbathE♭ minor91BPM

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

  1. VogueMadonnaB♭ minor116BPM
  2. Heavy Metal LoverLady GagaB♭ minor116BPM
  3. HeresyNine Inch NailsB♭ minor115BPM
  4. Let’s DanceDavid BowieB♭ minor115BPM
  5. Not That KindAnastaciaB♭ minor115BPM
  6. MusiqueDaft PunkB♭ minor117BPM
  7. Axel FHarold FaltermeyerB♭ minor117BPM
  8. Ain’t It FunGuns N’ RosesB♭ minor117BPM
  9. The Way I AreTimbaland feat. Keri Hilson & D.O.E.B♭ minor115BPM
  10. Thorn WithinMetallicaB♭ minor118BPM

Recordings in B flat minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 116 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B flat minorAll songs at 116 BPMB♭ minor at 110–119 BPMMadonna

MusicBrainz collapses 7 recording ids into this one. Recording id 2477cc26-e7cb-46bb-b1af-0957903d612f.