TempoPeek

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All at Once

All at Once is in B major at 134 beats per minute.

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Tempo

134 BPM · Allegromedian of 160 analyses · 134–134.4 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B major5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
160people who ran the extractor
One beat
447.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441.5Hz · +6 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.98dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.916Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.913Essentia'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

160 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in B major, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 160 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 134 BPM one beat lasts 447.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 111.9 ms and a dotted eighth 335.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 67 BPM, counted twice as fast 268. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.5 Hz, which is 6 cents above 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 3.98 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 0.916 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 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 134 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note417910.56
Half note2895.51.12
Dotted quarter1.5671.61.49
Quarter note (one beat)1447.82.23
Quarter triplet0.667298.53.35
Dotted eighth0.75335.82.98
Eighth note0.5223.94.47
Eighth triplet0.333149.36.7
Dotted sixteenth0.375167.95.96
Sixteenth note0.25111.98.93
Sixteenth triplet0.16774.613.4
Thirty-second note0.1255617.87

Half time 67 BPM · double time 268 BPM. Every row is one beat (447.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. All at OnceWhitney HoustonB♭ major133BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Come Fly With MeMichael BubléB major134BPM
  2. New Year’s DayU2B major133BPM
  3. AngeleyesABBAB major133BPM
  4. You Are the Sunshine of My LifeStevie WonderB major135BPM
  5. On the MendFoo FightersB major135BPM
  6. I Drove All NightCéline DionB major135BPM
  7. FlumeBon IverB major133BPM
  8. Rock MeABBAB major132BPM
  9. Geek Stink BreathGreen DayB major132BPM
  10. NutshellAlice in ChainsB major137BPM

Recordings in B major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 134 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B majorAll songs at 134 BPMB major at 130–139 BPMThe Fray

MusicBrainz collapses 2 recording ids into this one. Recording id c6250824-8e5a-4bcd-8d3c-5122d83aa924.