TempoPeek

Madonna · True Blue

Where’s the Party

Where’s the Party is in C major at 118.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

119 BPM · Moderatomedian of 176 analyses · 116.5–119 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
50%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
176people who ran the extractor
One beat
505.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
438.5Hz · -6 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.08dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.922Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.347Essentia'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. A bare majority of them — 50% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 176 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 116.5 to 119 BPM.

At 118.8 BPM one beat lasts 505.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 126.3 ms and a dotted eighth 378.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 59.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 237.6. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.5 Hz, which is 6 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 3.08 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 0.922 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 C 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 C major

Each of these differs from C 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 119 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42020.20.5
Half note21010.10.99
Dotted quarter1.5757.61.32
Quarter note (one beat)1505.11.98
Quarter triplet0.667336.72.97
Dotted eighth0.75378.82.64
Eighth note0.5252.53.96
Eighth triplet0.333168.45.94
Dotted sixteenth0.375189.45.28
Sixteenth note0.25126.37.92
Sixteenth triplet0.16784.211.88
Thirty-second note0.12563.115.84

Half time 59.4 BPM · double time 237.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (505.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Ain’t Too Proud to BegThe TemptationsC major119BPM
  2. Hot BloodedForeignerC major119BPM
  3. Love in the First DegreeBananaramaC major119BPM
  4. Their LawThe Prodigy feat. Pop Will Eat ItselfC major119BPM
  5. bang…Frankie Goes to HollywoodC major119BPM
  6. JoeyConcrete BlondeC major119BPM
  7. Man on the MoonR.E.M.C major119BPM
  8. I’m Not Calling You a LiarFlorence + the MachineC major118BPM
  9. Super TrouperABBAC major118BPM
  10. Loving the AlienDavid BowieC major118BPM

Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 119 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C majorAll songs at 119 BPMC major at 110–119 BPMMadonna

MusicBrainz collapses 21 recording ids into this one. Recording id dbad0011-d14c-4f9e-ae40-bb0c7ff9c189.