Michael Jackson · Bad
Liberian Girl
Liberian Girl is in G sharp minor at 105.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
105 BPM · Andantemedian of 204 analyses · 105.1–105.2 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G♯ minor5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 204people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 570.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 6.54dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.742Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.326Essentia'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
204 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in G sharp minor, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 204 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 105.2 BPM one beat lasts 570.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 142.6 ms and a dotted eighth 427.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 52.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 210.4. 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 6.54 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 0.742 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 G sharp 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 G♯ minor
Each of these differs from G♯ 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 105 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2281.4 | 0.44 |
| Half note | 2 | 1140.7 | 0.88 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 855.5 | 1.17 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 570.3 | 1.75 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 380.2 | 2.63 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 427.8 | 2.34 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 285.2 | 3.51 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 190.1 | 5.26 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 213.9 | 4.68 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 142.6 | 7.01 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 95.1 | 10.52 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 71.3 | 14.03 |
Half time 52.6 BPM · double time 210.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (570.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- CronosJo BlankenburgG♯ minor106BPM
- A New WorldBostonG♯ minor105BPM
- BeyondDaft PunkG♯ minor104BPM
- Black Hole SunSoundgardenG♯ minor107BPM
- Jesus Children of AmericaStevie WonderG♯ minor104BPM
- Wake Up AloneAmy WinehouseG♯ minor103BPM
- Flynn LivesDaft PunkG♯ minor108BPM
- Letter 2 My Unborn2PacG♯ minor108BPM
- StrongerBritney SpearsG♯ minor108BPM
- ForgottenLinkin ParkG♯ minor108BPM
Recordings in G sharp minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 105 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G sharp minorAll songs at 105 BPMG♯ minor at 100–109 BPMMichael Jackson
MusicBrainz collapses 10 recording ids into this one. Recording id 7750b3a2-b167-47db-ac21-ce7533c986f4.