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I Couldn’t Be More in Love

I Couldn’t Be More in Love is in F minor at 120.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

121 BPM · Allegromedian of 143 analyses · 120.9–120.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
F minor4 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
98%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
143people who ran the extractor
One beat
496.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
439.5Hz · -2 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.91dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.925Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.028Essentia'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

143 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in F minor, a key signature of 4 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 143 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 120.9 BPM one beat lasts 496.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 124.1 ms and a dotted eighth 372.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 60.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 241.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.5 Hz, which is 2 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 3.91 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 0.925 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 F 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 F minor

Each of these differs from F 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 121 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41985.10.5
Half note2992.61.01
Dotted quarter1.5744.41.34
Quarter note (one beat)1496.32.02
Quarter triplet0.667330.93.02
Dotted eighth0.75372.22.69
Eighth note0.5248.14.03
Eighth triplet0.333165.46.05
Dotted sixteenth0.375186.15.37
Sixteenth note0.25124.18.06
Sixteenth triplet0.16782.712.09
Thirty-second note0.1256216.12

Half time 60.5 BPM · double time 241.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (496.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. 4 My PeopleMissy Elliott featuring EveF minor121BPM
  2. Come Rain or Come ShineRay CharlesF minor120BPM
  3. Gimme All Your Lovin’ZZ TopF minor120BPM
  4. St. JudeFlorence + the MachineF minor120BPM
  5. FunkytownLipps, Inc.F minor123BPM
  6. They Won’t Go When I GoGeorge MichaelF minor123BPM
  7. Lose My BreathDestiny’s ChildF minor119BPM
  8. Killing Me Softly With His SongRoberta FlackF minor123BPM
  9. The Power of LoveFrankie Goes to HollywoodF minor123BPM
  10. Undercover of the NightThe Rolling StonesF minor123BPM

Recordings in F minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 121 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in F minorAll songs at 121 BPMF minor at 120–129 BPMThe 1975

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id d0ce105f-b7ed-4317-8cbe-bade7428762f.