Pharrell Williams · G I R L
Happy
Happy is in F minor at 161.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
162 BPM · Vivacemedian of 327 analyses · 161.7–161.8 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F minor4 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 95%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 327people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 370.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440Hz · 0 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.88dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.942Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.325Essentia'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
327 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 95% — put it in F minor, a key signature of 4 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 327 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 161.8 BPM one beat lasts 370.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 92.7 ms and a dotted eighth 278.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 80.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 323.6. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440 Hz, which is 0 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 2.88 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 0.942 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 F minor; 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 F minor
Each of these differs from F minor 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 162 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1483.3 | 0.67 |
| Half note | 2 | 741.7 | 1.35 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 556.2 | 1.8 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 370.8 | 2.7 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 247.2 | 4.05 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 278.1 | 3.6 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 185.4 | 5.39 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 123.6 | 8.09 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 139.1 | 7.19 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 92.7 | 10.79 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 61.8 | 16.18 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 46.4 | 21.57 |
Half time 80.9 BPM · double time 323.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (370.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
The same title by somebody else
Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.
Closest in key and tempo
- Yes / Chinese Sleep ChantColdplayF minor162BPM
- Royal PursuitTim DaviesF minor162BPM
- What’s This?Danny ElfmanF minor163BPM
- Sing for the MomentEminemF minor164BPM
- Mack the KnifeMichael BubléF minor164BPM
- Walk on WaterNeil DiamondF minor165BPM
- Edge of the WorldEmeryF minor165BPM
- BrianstormArctic MonkeysF minor165BPM
- Favorite SongChance the Rapper feat. Childish GambinoF minor156BPM
- Only an Act of True LoveTim DaviesF minor155BPM
Recordings in F minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 162 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F minorAll songs at 162 BPMF minor at 160–169 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 13 recording ids into this one. Recording id f367ad6e-efd5-4496-aba5-21a4edcd82c6.