Sting · The Soul Cages
Mad About You
Mad About You is in G sharp minor at 84.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
85 BPM · Andantemedian of 147 analyses · 84.7–87.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G♯ minor5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 91%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 147people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 708.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 443.6Hz · +14 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.02dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.84Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.089Essentia'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
147 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 91% — put it in G sharp minor, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 147 readings; 86% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 84.7 to 87.1 BPM.
At 84.7 BPM one beat lasts 708.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 177.1 ms and a dotted eighth 531.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 42.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 169.4. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 443.6 Hz, which is 14 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 4.02 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 0.84 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 G sharp 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 G♯ minor
Each of these differs from G♯ 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 85 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2833.5 | 0.35 |
| Half note | 2 | 1416.8 | 0.71 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1062.6 | 0.94 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 708.4 | 1.41 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 472.3 | 2.12 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 531.3 | 1.88 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 354.2 | 2.82 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 236.1 | 4.24 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 265.6 | 3.76 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 177.1 | 5.65 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 118.1 | 8.47 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 88.5 | 11.29 |
Half time 42.4 BPM · double time 169.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (708.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Keep On Chooglin’Creedence Clearwater RevivalG♯ minor84BPM
- CandymanChristina AguileraG♯ minor87BPM
- Me Against the World2Pac featuring DramacydalG♯ minor92BPM
- all the good girls go to hellBillie EilishG♯ minor93BPM
- No ScrubsTLCG♯ minor93BPM
- 21 Questions50 Cent feat. Nate DoggG♯ minor93BPM
- Lake Shore DriveAliotta Haynes JeremiahG♯ minor95BPM
- Cry Me a RiverJustin TimberlakeG♯ minor74BPM
- Neon KnightsBlack SabbathG♯ minor96BPM
- Can I Kick It?A Tribe Called QuestG♯ minor97BPM
Recordings in G sharp minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 85 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G sharp minorAll songs at 85 BPMSting
MusicBrainz collapses 40 recording ids into this one. Recording id cd5e0ac9-02d5-4d1c-b8f5-e4206953270e.