TempoPeek

The Police · Outlandos d’Amour

Roxanne

Roxanne is in B flat major at 135.6 beats per minute.

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Tempo

136 BPM · Allegromedian of 314 analyses · 133.3–136.1 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B♭ major2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
95%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
314people who ran the extractor
One beat
442.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
443.6Hz · +14 cents from A 440
Dynamics
6.83dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.752Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.107Essentia'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

314 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 95% — put it in B flat major, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 314 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 133.3 to 136.1 BPM.

At 135.6 BPM one beat lasts 442.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 110.6 ms and a dotted eighth 331.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 67.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 271.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 443.6 Hz, which is 14 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 6.83 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 0.752 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 136 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41769.90.57
Half note28851.13
Dotted quarter1.5663.71.51
Quarter note (one beat)1442.52.26
Quarter triplet0.6672953.39
Dotted eighth0.75331.93.01
Eighth note0.5221.24.52
Eighth triplet0.333147.56.78
Dotted sixteenth0.375165.96.03
Sixteenth note0.25110.69.04
Sixteenth triplet0.16773.713.56
Thirty-second note0.12555.318.08

Half time 67.8 BPM · double time 271.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (442.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. HumanThe KillersB♭ major136BPM
  2. DebaserPixiesB♭ major136BPM
  3. HonestyBilly JoelB♭ major136BPM
  4. What You Waiting For?Gwen StefaniB♭ major136BPM
  5. Hotline BlingDrakeB♭ major135BPM
  6. Hyper‐BalladBjörkB♭ major135BPM
  7. I Don’t Want to Talk About ItRod StewartB♭ major135BPM
  8. Nobody Does It BetterCarly SimonB♭ major135BPM
  9. Rocket Man (I Think It’s Going to Be a Long, Long Time)Elton JohnB♭ major137BPM
  10. Se a caboSantanaB♭ major137BPM

Recordings in B flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 136 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B flat majorAll songs at 136 BPMB♭ major at 130–139 BPMThe Police

MusicBrainz collapses 134 recording ids into this one. Recording id 68aaa830-20c5-4e4a-bc5c-3bfcecc43fde.