TempoPeek

Supertramp · Breakfast in America

Oh Darling

Oh Darling is in D major at 127.2 beats per minute.

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Tempo

127 BPM · Allegromedian of 138 analyses · 127–127.3 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
70%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
138people who ran the extractor
One beat
471.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441.3Hz · +5 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.46dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.881Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.22Essentia'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

138 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 70% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 138 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 127.2 BPM one beat lasts 471.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 117.9 ms and a dotted eighth 353.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 63.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 254.4. 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 0.881 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 127 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41886.80.53
Half note2943.41.06
Dotted quarter1.5707.51.41
Quarter note (one beat)1471.72.12
Quarter triplet0.667314.53.18
Dotted eighth0.75353.82.83
Eighth note0.5235.84.24
Eighth triplet0.333157.26.36
Dotted sixteenth0.375176.95.65
Sixteenth note0.25117.98.48
Sixteenth triplet0.16778.612.72
Thirty-second note0.1255916.96

Half time 63.6 BPM · double time 254.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (471.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. Oh! DarlingThe BeatlesA major172BPM

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. You Wear It WellRod StewartD major127BPM
  2. MozambiqueBob DylanD major127BPM
  3. She Goes DownMötley CrüeD major127BPM
  4. Under My ThumbThe Rolling StonesD major127BPM
  5. Hey Boy Hey GirlThe Chemical BrothersD major127BPM
  6. There’s Gonna Be Some Rockin’AC/DCD major127BPM
  7. All This TimeStingD major127BPM
  8. People Get ReadyAretha FranklinD major127BPM
  9. (Da Le) YaleoSantanaD major127BPM
  10. KooksDavid BowieD major128BPM

Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 127 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D majorAll songs at 127 BPMD major at 120–129 BPMSupertramp

MusicBrainz collapses 5 recording ids into this one. Recording id 6e3fdf23-5462-4701-9cf1-f5452fe91078.