Muse · Black Holes and Revelations
Starlight
Starlight is in E major at 121.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
122 BPM · Allegromedian of 187 analyses · 121.8–121.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 84%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 187people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 492.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.3dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.917Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.101Essentia'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
187 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 84% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 187 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 121.8 BPM one beat lasts 492.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 123.2 ms and a dotted eighth 369.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 60.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 243.6. 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 2.3 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 0.917 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 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 E major
Each of these differs from E 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 | 1970.4 | 0.51 |
| Half note | 2 | 985.2 | 1.02 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 738.9 | 1.35 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 492.6 | 2.03 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 328.4 | 3.05 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 369.5 | 2.71 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 246.3 | 4.06 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 164.2 | 6.09 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 184.7 | 5.41 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 123.2 | 8.12 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 82.1 | 12.18 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 61.6 | 16.24 |
Half time 60.9 BPM · double time 243.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (492.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Longfellow SerenadeNeil DiamondE major122BPM
- Kingdom ComeDavid BowieE major122BPM
- Rock’n MeSteve Miller BandE major122BPM
- Counting StarsOneRepublicE major122BPM
- Be With YouEnrique IglesiasE major122BPM
- Drive ByTrainE major122BPM
- Tears Dry on Their OwnAmy WinehouseE major121BPM
- Only Happy When It RainsGarbageE major121BPM
- Life in a Northern TownThe Dream AcademyE major121BPM
- BadlandsBruce Springsteen & The E Street BandE major123BPM
Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 122 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E majorAll songs at 122 BPME major at 120–129 BPMMuse
MusicBrainz collapses 28 recording ids into this one. Recording id 60e94685-0481-4d3d-bd84-11c389d9b2a5.