Neil Diamond · Sweet Caroline
Sweet Caroline
Sweet Caroline is in B major at 127 beats per minute.
Tempo
127 BPM · Allegromedian of 333 analyses · 126.2–128.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B major5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 96%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 333people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 472.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441Hz · +4 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.46dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.665Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.058Essentia'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
333 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in B major, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 333 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 126.2 to 128.1 BPM.
At 127 BPM one beat lasts 472.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 118.1 ms and a dotted eighth 354.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 63.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 254. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 5.46 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 0.665 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 B 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 B major
Each of these differs from B 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 127 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1889.8 | 0.53 |
| Half note | 2 | 944.9 | 1.06 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 708.7 | 1.41 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 472.4 | 2.12 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 315 | 3.18 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 354.3 | 2.82 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 236.2 | 4.23 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 157.5 | 6.35 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 177.2 | 5.64 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 118.1 | 8.47 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 78.7 | 12.7 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 59.1 | 16.93 |
Half time 63.5 BPM · double time 254 BPM. Every row is one beat (472.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- On TopThe KillersB major127BPM
- Surrounded by Heads and BodiesThe 1975B major128BPM
- Rockin to the BeatThe Black Eyed PeasB major128BPM
- YouGalantisB major128BPM
- Street Fighting ManThe Rolling StonesB major128BPM
- EscapeEnrique IglesiasB major126BPM
- Virginia MoonFoo FightersB major126BPM
- The North MountainTim DaviesB major126BPM
- Wonderful WorldSam CookeB major129BPM
- Get the Party StartedP!nkB major129BPM
Recordings in B major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 127 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B majorAll songs at 127 BPMB major at 120–129 BPMNeil Diamond
MusicBrainz collapses 53 recording ids into this one. Recording id 9d0a89d7-72aa-4b60-bf0e-b8b8247ad805.