Phil Collins · No Jacket Required
Don’t Lose My Number
Don’t Lose My Number is in C minor at 80.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
81 BPM · Andantemedian of 131 analyses · 80.6–80.7 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C minor3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 95%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 131people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 744.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 442.8Hz · +11 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.48dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.902Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.26Essentia'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
131 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 95% — put it in C minor, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 131 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 80.6 BPM one beat lasts 744.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 186.1 ms and a dotted eighth 558.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 40.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 161.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442.8 Hz, which is 11 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 4.48 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 0.902 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 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 C minor
Each of these differs from C 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 81 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2977.7 | 0.34 |
| Half note | 2 | 1488.8 | 0.67 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1116.6 | 0.9 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 744.4 | 1.34 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 496.3 | 2.02 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 558.3 | 1.79 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 372.2 | 2.69 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 248.1 | 4.03 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 279.2 | 3.58 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 186.1 | 5.37 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 124.1 | 8.06 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 93.1 | 10.75 |
Half time 40.3 BPM · double time 161.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (744.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Long & LostFlorence + the MachineC minor83BPM
- Spend Some TimeEminem feat. Obie Trice, Stat Quo & 50 CentC minor84BPM
- SolarMiles Davis All StarsC minor84BPM
- Le BalletCéline DionC minor84BPM
- DimensionScannerC minor85BPM
- Ground on DownBen HarperC minor85BPM
- Nasty Naughty BoyChristina AguileraC minor75BPM
- Bitches & SistersJay‐ZC minor87BPM
- You and Your FriendDire StraitsC minor87BPM
- Yo (Excuse Me Miss)Chris BrownC minor88BPM
Recordings in C minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 81 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C minorAll songs at 81 BPMC minor at 80–89 BPMPhil Collins
MusicBrainz collapses 13 recording ids into this one. Recording id 89e7ffa8-932d-4dce-8067-d17af2f170f5.