The Corrs · Forgiven, Not Forgotten
The Right Time
The Right Time is in D major at 93.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
94 BPM · Andantemedian of 139 analyses · 93.7–94 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 139people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 639.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.54dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.827Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.003Essentia'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 — 99% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 139 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 93.8 BPM one beat lasts 639.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 159.9 ms and a dotted eighth 479.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 46.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 187.6. A score would mark that Andante, 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 4.54 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 0.827 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 94 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2558.6 | 0.39 |
| Half note | 2 | 1279.3 | 0.78 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 959.5 | 1.04 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 639.7 | 1.56 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 426.4 | 2.34 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 479.7 | 2.08 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 319.8 | 3.13 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 213.2 | 4.69 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 239.9 | 4.17 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 159.9 | 6.25 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 106.6 | 9.38 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 80 | 12.51 |
Half time 46.9 BPM · double time 187.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (639.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- All Tomorrow’s PartiesThe Velvet Underground & NicoD major94BPM
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- Rising PowerAC/DCD major94BPM
- Running to Stand StillU2D major94BPM
- Hold Your Head UpUriah HeepD major93BPM
- Midnight RiderThe Allman Brothers BandD major95BPM
- Fly Away5 Seconds of SummerD major93BPM
- Human NatureMichael JacksonD major93BPM
- Roll Over BeethovenChuck BerryD major93BPM
- Blood and ThunderMastodonD major93BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 94 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 94 BPMD major at 90–99 BPMThe Corrs
MusicBrainz collapses 15 recording ids into this one. Recording id ae7d0c59-184e-4b0d-b98e-abc09e147578.