Prince and The Revolution · Around the World in a Day
Raspberry Beret
Raspberry Beret is in D major at 120.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
121 BPM · Allegromedian of 270 analyses · 120.8–121.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 93%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 270people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 496.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.8Hz · +7 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.63dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.86Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.453Essentia'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
270 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 93% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 270 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 120.8 BPM one beat lasts 496.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 124.2 ms and a dotted eighth 372.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 60.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 241.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.8 Hz, which is 7 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 4.63 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 0.86 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 D 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 D major
Each of these differs from D 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 121 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1986.8 | 0.5 |
| Half note | 2 | 993.4 | 1.01 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 745 | 1.34 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 496.7 | 2.01 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 331.1 | 3.02 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 372.5 | 2.68 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 248.3 | 4.03 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 165.6 | 6.04 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 186.3 | 5.37 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 124.2 | 8.05 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 82.8 | 12.08 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 62.1 | 16.11 |
Half time 60.4 BPM · double time 241.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (496.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Cover MeBruce SpringsteenD major121BPM
- I Don’t Want to Miss a ThingAerosmithD major121BPM
- Proud MaryCreedence Clearwater RevivalD major121BPM
- The Bells of RhymneyThe ByrdsD major121BPM
- WarningGreen DayD major121BPM
- Today I Sing the BluesAretha FranklinD major121BPM
- Anything GoesAC/DCD major121BPM
- Aladdin Sane (1913–1938–197?)David BowieD major120BPM
- On Melancholy HillGorillazD major120BPM
- Good to Me as I Am to YouAretha FranklinD major120BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 121 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 121 BPMD major at 120–129 BPMPrince and The Revolution
MusicBrainz collapses 11 recording ids into this one. Recording id f81427df-b2dc-464e-a8ec-b8030074501f.