Red Hot Chili Peppers · Californication

Porcelain

Porcelain is in D major at 139.9 beats per minute.

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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 valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41715.50.58
Half note2857.81.17
Dotted quarter1.5643.31.55
Quarter note (one beat)1428.92.33
Quarter triplet0.667285.93.5
Dotted eighth0.75321.73.11
Eighth note0.5214.44.66
Eighth triplet0.3331437
Dotted sixteenth0.375160.86.22
Sixteenth note0.25107.29.33
Sixteenth triplet0.16771.513.99
Thirty-second note0.12553.618.65

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

  1. Space Age Love SongA Flock of SeagullsD major140BPM
  2. Goodbye to RomanceOzzy OsbourneD major140BPM
  3. Say SomethingA Great Big World & Christina AguileraD major140BPM
  4. Winter’s WaltzTim DaviesD major140BPM
  5. New Way HomeFoo FightersD major139BPM
  6. Anyway, Anyhow, AnywhereDavid BowieD major139BPM
  7. Summer of ’69Bryan AdamsD major139BPM
  8. Any Time at AllThe BeatlesD major141BPM
  9. LeningradBilly JoelD major139BPM
  10. 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.