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Glory Box
Glory Box is in C minor at 120.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
120 BPM · Allegromedian of 220 analyses · 120.2–120.2 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C minor3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 86%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 220people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 499.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.9Hz · -20 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 6.27dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.827Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.171Essentia'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
220 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 86% — put it in C minor, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 220 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 120.2 BPM one beat lasts 499.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 124.8 ms and a dotted eighth 374.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 60.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 240.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.9 Hz, which is 20 cents below 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 6.27 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 0.827 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 120 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1996.7 | 0.5 |
| Half note | 2 | 998.3 | 1 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 748.8 | 1.34 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 499.2 | 2 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 332.8 | 3.01 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 374.4 | 2.67 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 249.6 | 4.01 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 166.4 | 6.01 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 187.2 | 5.34 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 124.8 | 8.01 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 83.2 | 12.02 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 62.4 | 16.03 |
Half time 60.1 BPM · double time 240.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (499.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Young and ProudAce of BaseC minor120BPM
- LiquorZZ TopC minor120BPM
- It’s My LifeBon JoviC minor120BPM
- The Logical SongSupertrampC minor121BPM
- Dust Bowl DanceMumford & SonsC minor120BPM
- Black Wave/Bad VibrationsArcade FireC minor121BPM
- SunnyBoney M.C minor122BPM
- Take CareDrake feat. RihannaC minor122BPM
- Since I’ve Been Loving YouLed ZeppelinC minor118BPM
- SalsationDavid ShireC minor118BPM
Recordings in C minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 120 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C minorAll songs at 120 BPMC minor at 120–129 BPMPortishead
MusicBrainz collapses 48 recording ids into this one. Recording id 145f5c43-0ac2-4886-8b09-63d0e92ded5d.