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Over

Over is in C minor at 148.2 beats per minute.

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Tempo

148 BPM · Allegromedian of 130 analyses · 148–148.2 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C minor3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
75%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
130people who ran the extractor
One beat
404.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
449.2Hz · +36 cents from A 440
Dynamics
6.17dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.239Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.032Essentia'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

130 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 75% — put it in C minor, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 130 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 148.2 BPM one beat lasts 404.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 101.2 ms and a dotted eighth 303.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 74.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 296.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 449.2 Hz, which is 36 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 6.17 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 0.239 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 148 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41619.40.62
Half note2809.71.23
Dotted quarter1.5607.31.65
Quarter note (one beat)1404.92.47
Quarter triplet0.667269.93.71
Dotted eighth0.75303.63.29
Eighth note0.5202.44.94
Eighth triplet0.3331357.41
Dotted sixteenth0.375151.86.59
Sixteenth note0.25101.29.88
Sixteenth triplet0.16767.514.82
Thirty-second note0.12550.619.76

Half time 74.1 BPM · double time 296.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (404.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. OverDrakeF major101BPM

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

  1. Lost and Lookin’Sam CookeC minor148BPM
  2. Dark LadyCherC minor147BPM
  3. BiologicalAirC minor150BPM
  4. Be With YouBeyoncéC minor150BPM
  5. Heat MiserMassive AttackC minor150BPM
  6. High HopesPink FloydC minor150BPM
  7. Breakfast in AmericaSupertrampC minor151BPM
  8. SkyfallAdeleC minor151BPM
  9. A New Machine, Part 1Pink FloydC minor151BPM
  10. MustaphaQueenC minor152BPM

Recordings in C minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 148 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C minorAll songs at 148 BPMC minor at 140–149 BPMPortishead

MusicBrainz collapses 36 recording ids into this one. Recording id c4310335-9213-46a6-af81-b86fcb1975ed.