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Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly is in C major at 122.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
122 BPM · Allegromedian of 162 analyses · 122.2–122.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 96%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 162people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 490.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.6dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.809Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.149Essentia'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
162 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 162 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 122.3 BPM one beat lasts 490.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 122.6 ms and a dotted eighth 367.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 61.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 244.6. 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 5.6 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 0.809 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 122 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1962.4 | 0.51 |
| Half note | 2 | 981.2 | 1.02 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 735.9 | 1.36 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 490.6 | 2.04 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 327.1 | 3.06 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 367.9 | 2.72 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 245.3 | 4.08 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 163.5 | 6.11 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 184 | 5.44 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 122.6 | 8.15 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 81.8 | 12.23 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 61.3 | 16.31 |
Half time 61.2 BPM · double time 244.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (490.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
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- Wild HoneyThe Beach BoysC major122BPM
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Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 122 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 122 BPMC major at 120–129 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 29 recording ids into this one. Recording id f507b892-4dab-4c08-b517-4626a84041d3.