Neil Diamond · The Christmas Album
White Christmas
White Christmas is in C major at 132.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
133 BPM · Allegromedian of 185 analyses · 132.9–133 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 185people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 451.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 439Hz · -4 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.64dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.925Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.167Essentia'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 C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. 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 132.9 BPM one beat lasts 451.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 112.9 ms and a dotted eighth 338.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 66.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 265.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439 Hz, which is 4 cents below 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 3.64 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 0.925 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 133 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1805.9 | 0.55 |
| Half note | 2 | 902.9 | 1.11 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 677.2 | 1.48 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 451.5 | 2.22 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 301 | 3.32 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 338.6 | 2.95 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 225.7 | 4.43 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 150.5 | 6.65 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 169.3 | 5.91 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 112.9 | 8.86 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 75.2 | 13.29 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 56.4 | 17.72 |
Half time 66.5 BPM · double time 265.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (451.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- RoundaboutYesC major133BPM
- MiseryThe BeatlesC major133BPM
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- Morning Has BrokenCat StevensC major133BPM
- DanielElton JohnC major133BPM
- Dancing on the CeilingLionel RichieC major133BPM
- Get Your Filthy Hands Off My DesertPink FloydC major133BPM
- SomethingThe BeatlesC major133BPM
- Super FreakRick JamesC major133BPM
- I’d Die for YouBon JoviC major133BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 133 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 133 BPMC major at 130–139 BPMNeil Diamond
MusicBrainz collapses 5 recording ids into this one. Recording id 6f625f4e-79a5-4fe6-b592-1ee158492721.