Red Hot Chili Peppers · Californication
Porcelain
Porcelain is in D major at 139.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
140 BPM · Allegromedian of 130 analyses · 139.8–142.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 94%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 130people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 428.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 438.2Hz · -7 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.55dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.917Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.982Essentia'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 — 94% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 130 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 139.8 to 142.4 BPM.
At 139.9 BPM one beat lasts 428.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 107.2 ms and a dotted eighth 321.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 70 BPM, counted twice as fast 279.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.2 Hz, which is 7 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 4.55 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 0.917 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 140 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1715.5 | 0.58 |
| Half note | 2 | 857.8 | 1.17 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 643.3 | 1.55 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 428.9 | 2.33 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 285.9 | 3.5 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 321.7 | 3.11 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 214.4 | 4.66 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 143 | 7 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 160.8 | 6.22 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 107.2 | 9.33 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 71.5 | 13.99 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 53.6 | 18.65 |
Half time 70 BPM · double time 279.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (428.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Space Age Love SongA Flock of SeagullsD major140BPM
- Goodbye to RomanceOzzy OsbourneD major140BPM
- Say SomethingA Great Big World & Christina AguileraD major140BPM
- Winter’s WaltzTim DaviesD major140BPM
- New Way HomeFoo FightersD major139BPM
- Anyway, Anyhow, AnywhereDavid BowieD major139BPM
- Summer of ’69Bryan AdamsD major139BPM
- Any Time at AllThe BeatlesD major141BPM
- LeningradBilly JoelD major139BPM
- LuanneForeignerD major141BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 140 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 140 BPMD major at 130–139 BPMRed Hot Chili Peppers
MusicBrainz collapses 7 recording ids into this one. Recording id a74be3c3-aba0-4904-bc5a-11c0ae4901d7.