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New Year’s Day
New Year’s Day is in B major at 133.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
133 BPM · Allegromedian of 191 analyses · 133.2–133.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B major5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 92%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 191people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 450.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.3Hz · +5 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.61dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.936Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.07Essentia'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
191 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 92% — put it in B major, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 191 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 133.3 BPM one beat lasts 450.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 112.5 ms and a dotted eighth 337.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 66.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 266.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.3 Hz, which is 5 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 2.61 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 0.936 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 133 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1800.5 | 0.56 |
| Half note | 2 | 900.2 | 1.11 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 675.2 | 1.48 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 450.1 | 2.22 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 300.1 | 3.33 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 337.6 | 2.96 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 225.1 | 4.44 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 150 | 6.67 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 168.8 | 5.92 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 112.5 | 8.89 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 75 | 13.33 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 56.3 | 17.77 |
Half time 66.7 BPM · double time 266.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (450.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- AngeleyesABBAB major133BPM
- Come Fly With MeMichael BubléB major134BPM
- All at OnceThe FrayB major134BPM
- FlumeBon IverB major133BPM
- Rock MeABBAB major132BPM
- You Are the Sunshine of My LifeStevie WonderB major135BPM
- On the MendFoo FightersB major135BPM
- Geek Stink BreathGreen DayB major132BPM
- I Drove All NightCéline DionB major135BPM
- Dancing in the StreetDavid Bowie & Mick JaggerB major131BPM
Recordings in B major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 133 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B majorAll songs at 133 BPMB major at 130–139 BPMU2
MusicBrainz collapses 573 recording ids into this one. Recording id 203a0c11-878c-4a81-8617-2d2d5b8f8483.