Ray Parker Jr. · Rocks the Casbah (The 80’s megamix)
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters is in A major at 115.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
116 BPM · Moderatomedian of 259 analyses · 115.3–115.7 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 90%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 259people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 519milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.86dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.861Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.397Essentia'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
259 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 90% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 259 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 115.6 BPM one beat lasts 519 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 129.8 ms and a dotted eighth 389.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 57.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 231.2. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 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 3.86 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 0.861 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 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 116 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2076.1 | 0.48 |
| Half note | 2 | 1038.1 | 0.96 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 778.5 | 1.28 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 519 | 1.93 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 346 | 2.89 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 389.3 | 2.57 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 259.5 | 3.85 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 173 | 5.78 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 194.6 | 5.14 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 129.8 | 7.71 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 86.5 | 11.56 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 64.9 | 15.41 |
Half time 57.8 BPM · double time 231.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (519 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- I Wish You PeaceEaglesA major116BPM
- RedundantGreen DayA major116BPM
- RearviewAndra DayA major116BPM
- Don’t Bring Me DownElectric Light OrchestraA major115BPM
- Quando, quando, quandoMichael Bublé duet with Nelly FurtadoA major116BPM
- Off My LineSpin DoctorsA major115BPM
- Cigarettes & AlcoholOasisA major115BPM
- Get LuckyDaft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile RodgersA major116BPM
- Cold TurkeyPlastic Ono BandA major115BPM
- AmsterdamImagine DragonsA major115BPM
Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 116 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A majorAll songs at 116 BPMA major at 110–119 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 48 recording ids into this one. Recording id f1c3589e-a4c9-4f1a-97d5-6cd38f9197f6.