The Cranberries · Bury the Hatchet
Just My Imagination
Just My Imagination is in B flat major at 100.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
101 BPM · Andantemedian of 218 analyses · 100.5–100.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B♭ major2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 218people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 596.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 439Hz · -4 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.3dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.917Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.04Essentia'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
218 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in B flat major, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 218 readings; 91% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 100.6 BPM one beat lasts 596.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 149.1 ms and a dotted eighth 447.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 50.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 201.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439 Hz, which is 4 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 3.3 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 0.917 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 B flat 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 B♭ major
Each of these differs from B♭ 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 101 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2385.7 | 0.42 |
| Half note | 2 | 1192.8 | 0.84 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 894.6 | 1.12 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 596.4 | 1.68 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 397.6 | 2.52 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 447.3 | 2.24 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 298.2 | 3.35 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 198.8 | 5.03 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 223.7 | 4.47 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 149.1 | 6.71 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 99.4 | 10.06 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 74.6 | 13.41 |
Half time 50.3 BPM · double time 201.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (596.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- The Game Has ChangedDaft PunkB♭ major100BPM
- Root DownBeastie BoysB♭ major100BPM
- Splitting the AtomMassive AttackB♭ major100BPM
- Motorola$NotB♭ major101BPM
- What It IsBlack Eyed PeasB♭ major100BPM
- Cure for the ItchLinkin ParkB♭ major100BPM
- Doo Wop (That Thing)Lauryn HillB♭ major100BPM
- Lust for LifeLana Del Rey ft. The WeekndB♭ major100BPM
- SorryJustin BieberB♭ major100BPM
- Dr. JackleMiles DavisB♭ major102BPM
Recordings in B flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 101 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B flat majorAll songs at 101 BPMB♭ major at 100–109 BPMThe Cranberries
MusicBrainz collapses 27 recording ids into this one. Recording id a8a997e3-4960-4ce5-b241-4ef69ce905e0.