U2 · All That You Can’t Leave Behind
Beautiful Day
Beautiful Day is in D major at 136.1 beats per minute.
Tempo
136 BPM · Allegromedian of 229 analyses · 136–136.2 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 97%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 229people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 440.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.5Hz · +6 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.47dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.622Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.049Essentia'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
229 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 229 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 136.1 BPM one beat lasts 440.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 110.2 ms and a dotted eighth 330.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 68.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 272.2. 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 4.47 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 0.622 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 136 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1763.4 | 0.57 |
| Half note | 2 | 881.7 | 1.13 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 661.3 | 1.51 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 440.9 | 2.27 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 293.9 | 3.4 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 330.6 | 3.02 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 220.4 | 4.54 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 147 | 6.81 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 165.3 | 6.05 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 110.2 | 9.07 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 73.5 | 13.61 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 55.1 | 18.15 |
Half time 68.1 BPM · double time 272.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (440.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- TomorrowAvril LavigneD major136BPM
- Lucy in the Sky With DiamondsThe BeatlesD major136BPM
- Dead FlowersThe Rolling StonesD major136BPM
- Raise Your HandsBon JoviD major136BPM
- SparksThe WhoD major136BPM
- BitchThe Rolling StonesD major136BPM
- Almost Cut My HairCrosby, Stills, Nash & YoungD major137BPM
- Problem ChildAC/DCD major136BPM
- Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your BoyFall Out BoyD major136BPM
- SubstituteThe WhoD major135BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 136 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 136 BPMD major at 130–139 BPMU2
MusicBrainz collapses 157 recording ids into this one. Recording id 809e8321-9e38-4ebf-b467-1cb6d85f5076.