TempoPeek

R.E.M. · Out of Time

Shiny Happy People

Shiny Happy People is in E major at 124.7 beats per minute.

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Tempo

125 BPM · Allegromedian of 213 analyses · 124.4–124.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
98%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
213people who ran the extractor
One beat
481.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441Hz · +4 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.92dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.945Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.125Essentia'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

213 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 213 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 124.7 BPM one beat lasts 481.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 120.3 ms and a dotted eighth 360.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 62.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 249.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441 Hz, which is 4 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 2.92 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 0.945 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 E 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 E major

Each of these differs from E 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 125 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41924.60.52
Half note2962.31.04
Dotted quarter1.5721.71.39
Quarter note (one beat)1481.22.08
Quarter triplet0.667320.83.12
Dotted eighth0.75360.92.77
Eighth note0.5240.64.16
Eighth triplet0.333160.46.24
Dotted sixteenth0.375180.45.54
Sixteenth note0.25120.38.31
Sixteenth triplet0.16780.212.47
Thirty-second note0.12560.116.63

Half time 62.4 BPM · double time 249.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (481.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. One Night Love AffairBryan AdamsE major125BPM
  2. I Feel for YouChaka KhanE major125BPM
  3. Hear MeImagine DragonsE major125BPM
  4. Little BirdAnnie LennoxE major125BPM
  5. The Golden AgeBeckE major124BPM
  6. Sheila Take a BowThe SmithsE major125BPM
  7. Everybody’s Talkin’NilssonE major124BPM
  8. Do You Want to Know a SecretThe BeatlesE major124BPM
  9. She’s ElectricOasisE major125BPM
  10. LegsZZ TopE major125BPM

Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 125 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E majorAll songs at 125 BPME major at 120–129 BPMR.E.M.

MusicBrainz collapses 10 recording ids into this one. Recording id c4b618c1-9507-4238-8e13-657286547b09.