TempoPeek

The B‐52’s · Good Stuff

Dreamland

Dreamland is in E major at 120 beats per minute.

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Tempo

120 BPM · Allegromedian of 179 analyses · 119.8–120 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
179people who ran the extractor
One beat
500milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.43dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.903Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.212Essentia'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

179 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 179 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 120 BPM one beat lasts 500 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 125 ms and a dotted eighth 375 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 60 BPM, counted twice as fast 240. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 cents below 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 3.43 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 0.903 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 E 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 E major

Each of these differs from E 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 120 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note420000.5
Half note210001
Dotted quarter1.57501.33
Quarter note (one beat)15002
Quarter triplet0.667333.33
Dotted eighth0.753752.67
Eighth note0.52504
Eighth triplet0.333166.76
Dotted sixteenth0.375187.55.33
Sixteenth note0.251258
Sixteenth triplet0.16783.312
Thirty-second note0.12562.516

Half time 60 BPM · double time 240 BPM. Every row is one beat (500 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. DynamiteTaio CruzE major120BPM
  2. BlowKe$haE major120BPM
  3. Blanket MeHundred WatersE major120BPM
  4. The One and OnlyChesney HawkesE major120BPM
  5. Bad KidsLady GagaE major120BPM
  6. LostChance the Rapper feat. Noname GypsyE major120BPM
  7. Soak Up the SunSheryl CrowE major120BPM
  8. Dark ParadiseLana Del ReyE major120BPM
  9. It’s So EasyLinda RonstadtE major120BPM
  10. HeroMariah CareyE major120BPM

Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 120 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E majorAll songs at 120 BPME major at 120–129 BPMThe B‐52’s

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id fa0a5321-57cf-496c-a21d-b7e6f0a05793.