Supertramp · Breakfast in America
Goodbye Stranger
Goodbye Stranger is in A flat major at 126.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
126 BPM · Allegromedian of 255 analyses · 126.2–126.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A♭ major4 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 255people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 475.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.3Hz · +5 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.46dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.624Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.137Essentia'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
255 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in A flat major, a key signature of 4 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 255 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 126.2 BPM one beat lasts 475.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 118.9 ms and a dotted eighth 356.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 63.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 252.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.3 Hz, which is 5 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 4.46 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 0.624 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 flat 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 126 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1901.7 | 0.53 |
| Half note | 2 | 950.9 | 1.05 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 713.2 | 1.4 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 475.4 | 2.1 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 317 | 3.16 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 356.6 | 2.8 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 237.7 | 4.21 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 158.5 | 6.31 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 178.3 | 5.61 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 118.9 | 8.41 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 79.2 | 12.62 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 59.4 | 16.83 |
Half time 63.1 BPM · double time 252.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (475.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- IfDestiny’s ChildA♭ major126BPM
- I’m a ManChicago Transit AuthorityA♭ major126BPM
- I Wish It Would Rain DownPhil CollinsA♭ major126BPM
- Sloop John BThe Beach BoysA♭ major126BPM
- All of MeJohn LegendA♭ major126BPM
- Higher GroundStevie WonderA♭ major126BPM
- A View to a KillDuran DuranA♭ major126BPM
- Wild OnesFlo Rida featuring SiaA♭ major127BPM
- Let Forever BeThe Chemical BrothersA♭ major127BPM
- Give It 2 MeMadonnaA♭ major127BPM
Recordings in A flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 126 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A flat majorAll songs at 126 BPMA♭ major at 120–129 BPMSupertramp
MusicBrainz collapses 20 recording ids into this one. Recording id c9960e00-5ff6-47f4-ba97-32ebcad935cb.