Neil Diamond · The Christmas Album Volume II

O Come All Ye Faithful

O Come All Ye Faithful is in G major at 75 beats per minute.

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Tempo

75 BPM · Adagiomedian of 185 analyses · 74.9–75.1 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
185people who ran the extractor
One beat
800milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441Hz · +4 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.5dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.879Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.934Essentia'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

185 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 185 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 75 BPM one beat lasts 800 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 200 ms and a dotted eighth 600 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 37.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 150. A score would mark that Adagio, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441 Hz, which is 4 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 3.5 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 0.879 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 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 G major

Each of these differs from G 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 75 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note432000.31
Half note216000.63
Dotted quarter1.512000.83
Quarter note (one beat)18001.25
Quarter triplet0.667533.31.88
Dotted eighth0.756001.67
Eighth note0.54002.5
Eighth triplet0.333266.73.75
Dotted sixteenth0.3753003.33
Sixteenth note0.252005
Sixteenth triplet0.167133.37.5
Thirty-second note0.12510010

Half time 37.5 BPM · double time 150 BPM. Every row is one beat (800 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. PortiaMiles DavisG major75BPM
  2. Waiting for the WormsPink FloydG major76BPM
  3. Up in FlamesColdplayG major76BPM
  4. After the Thrill Is GoneEaglesG major78BPM
  5. Jealous GuyRoxy MusicG major78BPM
  6. Passenger SeatDeath Cab for CutieG major78BPM
  7. Jesus Just Left ChicagoZZ TopG major72BPM
  8. Öll birtanBjörkG major72BPM
  9. End of a CenturyBlurG major80BPM
  10. Sullivan StreetCounting CrowsG major81BPM

Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 75 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G majorAll songs at 75 BPMG major at 70–79 BPMNeil Diamond

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 6c786e89-14da-47f7-8bdb-16277f7eb9c0.