The 5th Dimension · Up, Up and Away

Up‐Up and Away

Up‐Up and Away is in G minor at 162.1 beats per minute.

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Tempo

162 BPM · Vivacemedian of 139 analyses · 161.9–162.4 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G minor2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
139people who ran the extractor
One beat
370.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.8Hz · +3 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.55dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.785Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.018Essentia'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

139 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in G minor, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 139 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 162.1 BPM one beat lasts 370.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 92.5 ms and a dotted eighth 277.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 81.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 324.2. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.8 Hz, which is 3 cents above 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 3.55 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 0.785 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 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 162 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41480.60.68
Half note2740.31.35
Dotted quarter1.5555.21.8
Quarter note (one beat)1370.12.7
Quarter triplet0.667246.84.05
Dotted eighth0.75277.63.6
Eighth note0.5185.15.4
Eighth triplet0.333123.48.11
Dotted sixteenth0.375138.87.2
Sixteenth note0.2592.510.81
Sixteenth triplet0.16761.716.21
Thirty-second note0.12546.321.61

Half time 81.1 BPM · double time 324.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (370.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Midnight in a Perfect WorldDJ ShadowG minor162BPM
  2. My Body Is a CageArcade FireG minor163BPM
  3. Sysyphus, Part 1Richard WrightG minor164BPM
  4. Restless Heart SyndromeGreen DayG minor164BPM
  5. Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts VI–IXPink FloydG minor165BPM
  6. Sweet JaneCowboy JunkiesG minor166BPM
  7. You Win AgainBee GeesG minor167BPM
  8. Along Comes MaryBloodhound GangG minor155BPM
  9. This TimeCéline DionG minor154BPM
  10. Rhymin & StealinBeastie BoysG minor152BPM

Recordings in G minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 162 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G minorAll songs at 162 BPMG minor at 160–169 BPM

MusicBrainz collapses 26 recording ids into this one. Recording id d549b396-7120-4143-b04c-d93f1c18911e.