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Where the Wild Things Are
Where the Wild Things Are is in E flat minor at 91.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
92 BPM · Andantemedian of 130 analyses · 91.9–92 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E♭ minor6 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 92%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 130people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 652.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.45dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.912Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.14Essentia'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
130 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 92% — put it in E flat minor, a key signature of 6 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 130 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 91.9 BPM one beat lasts 652.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 163.2 ms and a dotted eighth 489.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 46 BPM, counted twice as fast 183.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.3 Hz, which is 1 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 3.45 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 0.912 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 E 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 E♭ minor
Each of these differs from E♭ 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 92 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2611.5 | 0.38 |
| Half note | 2 | 1305.8 | 0.77 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 979.3 | 1.02 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 652.9 | 1.53 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 435.3 | 2.3 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 489.7 | 2.04 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 326.4 | 3.06 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 217.6 | 4.6 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 244.8 | 4.08 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 163.2 | 6.13 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 108.8 | 9.19 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 81.6 | 12.25 |
Half time 46 BPM · double time 183.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (652.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Hey, Mr. DJ (Keep Playin’ This Song)Backstreet BoysE♭ minor92BPM
- Rock BottomEminemE♭ minor92BPM
- Here to StayChristina AguileraE♭ minor91BPM
- How Do U Want It2Pac feat. K‐Ci & JoJoE♭ minor93BPM
- SoberP!nkE♭ minor91BPM
- Get Up 10Cardi BE♭ minor93BPM
- On FireVan HalenE♭ minor91BPM
- Over and OverBlack SabbathE♭ minor91BPM
- Remember Me?Eminem featuring RBX and Sticky FingazE♭ minor90BPM
- Down With the SicknessDisturbedE♭ minor90BPM
Recordings in E flat minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 92 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E flat minorAll songs at 92 BPME♭ minor at 90–99 BPMMetallica
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id b13eceb1-53e5-439f-b021-620bc97b602a.