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99 Luftballons
99 Luftballons is in A major at 96.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
96 BPM · Andantemedian of 319 analyses · 96–96.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 88%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 319people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 622.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 442Hz · +8 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.24dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.706Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.182Essentia'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
319 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 88% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 319 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 96.4 BPM one beat lasts 622.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 155.6 ms and a dotted eighth 466.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 48.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 192.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442 Hz, which is 8 cents above 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 5.24 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 0.706 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 A 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 A major
Each of these differs from A 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 96 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2489.6 | 0.4 |
| Half note | 2 | 1244.8 | 0.8 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 933.6 | 1.07 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 622.4 | 1.61 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 414.9 | 2.41 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 466.8 | 2.14 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 311.2 | 3.21 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 207.5 | 4.82 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 233.4 | 4.28 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 155.6 | 6.43 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 103.7 | 9.64 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 77.8 | 12.85 |
Half time 48.2 BPM · double time 192.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (622.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- The Rock Showblink‐182A major97BPM
- Slow Down BabyChristina AguileraA major97BPM
- To the EndBlurA major96BPM
- Hots On for NowhereLed ZeppelinA major96BPM
- Fallin’Alicia KeysA major96BPM
- 3 LibrasA Perfect CircleA major96BPM
- Change the WorldEric ClaptonA major97BPM
- Not TodayAndra DayA major96BPM
- Where It’s AtBeckA major97BPM
- Steady Rollin’ ManEric ClaptonA major96BPM
Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 96 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A majorAll songs at 96 BPMA major at 90–99 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 37 recording ids into this one. Recording id f4655387-c676-4b07-9a27-f560ba254170.