TempoPeek

Phil Collins · …But Seriously

I Wish It Would Rain Down

I Wish It Would Rain Down is in A flat major at 125.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

126 BPM · Allegromedian of 280 analyses · 125.9–126 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A♭ major4 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
98%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
280people who ran the extractor
One beat
476.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441.5Hz · +6 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.34dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.851Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.05Essentia'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

280 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in A flat major, a key signature of 4 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 280 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 125.9 BPM one beat lasts 476.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 119.1 ms and a dotted eighth 357.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 63 BPM, counted twice as fast 251.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.5 Hz, which is 6 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 3.34 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 0.851 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 flat 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 126 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41906.30.52
Half note2953.11.05
Dotted quarter1.5714.91.4
Quarter note (one beat)1476.62.1
Quarter triplet0.667317.73.15
Dotted eighth0.75357.42.8
Eighth note0.5238.34.2
Eighth triplet0.333158.96.3
Dotted sixteenth0.375178.75.6
Sixteenth note0.25119.18.39
Sixteenth triplet0.16779.412.59
Thirty-second note0.12559.616.79

Half time 63 BPM · double time 251.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (476.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Sloop John BThe Beach BoysA♭ major126BPM
  2. All of MeJohn LegendA♭ major126BPM
  3. Goodbye StrangerSupertrampA♭ major126BPM
  4. IfDestiny’s ChildA♭ major126BPM
  5. Higher GroundStevie WonderA♭ major126BPM
  6. A View to a KillDuran DuranA♭ major126BPM
  7. I’m a ManChicago Transit AuthorityA♭ major126BPM
  8. High LifeDaft PunkA♭ major125BPM
  9. I Need Your LoveCalvin Harris feat. Ellie GouldingA♭ major125BPM
  10. Like a G6Far East Movement ft. Cataracs & DevA♭ major125BPM

Recordings in A flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 126 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A flat majorAll songs at 126 BPMA♭ major at 120–129 BPMPhil Collins

MusicBrainz collapses 7 recording ids into this one. Recording id d2c133c4-9bd6-4d22-99d7-df84e7dcba79.