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Venus is in E minor at 128.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

129 BPM · Allegromedian of 195 analyses · 128.1–128.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
83%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
195people who ran the extractor
One beat
465.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
442.3Hz · +9 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.79dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.955Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.164Essentia'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

195 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 83% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 195 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 128.8 BPM one beat lasts 465.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 116.5 ms and a dotted eighth 349.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 64.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 257.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442.3 Hz, which is 9 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 2.79 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 0.955 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 minor; 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 minor

Each of these differs from E minor 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 129 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41863.40.54
Half note2931.71.07
Dotted quarter1.5698.81.43
Quarter note (one beat)1465.82.15
Quarter triplet0.667310.63.22
Dotted eighth0.75349.42.86
Eighth note0.5232.94.29
Eighth triplet0.333155.36.44
Dotted sixteenth0.375174.75.72
Sixteenth note0.25116.58.59
Sixteenth triplet0.16777.612.88
Thirty-second note0.12558.217.17

Half time 64.4 BPM · double time 257.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (465.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. VenusBananaramaE major126BPM
  2. VenusAirE♭ major156BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Are You Gonna Go My WayLenny KravitzE minor129BPM
  2. Money (That’s What I Want)The BeatlesE minor129BPM
  3. Take Me to ChurchHozierE minor129BPM
  4. Superstylin’Groove ArmadaE minor129BPM
  5. Voulez‐vous danserAce of BaseE minor129BPM
  6. Ain’t No Mountain High EnoughMarvin Gaye & Tammi TerrellE minor129BPM
  7. Love FoolosophyJamiroquaiE minor129BPM
  8. RadarBritney SpearsE minor128BPM
  9. Eight Miles HighThe ByrdsE minor130BPM
  10. Pigs (Three Different Ones)Pink FloydE minor130BPM

Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 129 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E minorAll songs at 129 BPME minor at 120–129 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 12 recording ids into this one. Recording id 3923cbe5-f1f6-4496-b602-56ab7570c905.