Usher · My Way
You Make Me Wanna…
You Make Me Wanna… is in C minor at 164.1 beats per minute.
Tempo
164 BPM · Vivacemedian of 135 analyses · 164.1–164.2 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C minor3 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 135people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 365.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.55dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.85Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.423Essentia'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
135 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in C minor, a key signature of 3 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 135 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 164.1 BPM one beat lasts 365.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 91.4 ms and a dotted eighth 274.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 82.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 328.2. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 cents below 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 4.55 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 0.85 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 C minor; 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 C minor
Each of these differs from C minor 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 164 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1462.5 | 0.68 |
| Half note | 2 | 731.3 | 1.37 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 548.4 | 1.82 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 365.6 | 2.74 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 243.8 | 4.1 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 274.2 | 3.65 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 182.8 | 5.47 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 121.9 | 8.21 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 137.1 | 7.29 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 91.4 | 10.94 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 60.9 | 16.41 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 45.7 | 21.88 |
Half time 82.1 BPM · double time 328.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (365.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Rivers & BridgesScannerC minor165BPM
- It's Gonna Be Me*NSYNCC minor165BPM
- (Love Is Like a) Heat WaveMartha Reeves and the VandellasC minor163BPM
- Pass the MicBeastie BoysC minor166BPM
- He Won’t GoAdeleC minor162BPM
- Greased Lightnin'John TravoltaC minor162BPM
- Super LoveCéline DionC minor157BPM
- Pastime ParadiseStevie WonderC minor156BPM
- The SupermenDavid BowieC minor172BPM
- Alpha Beta GagaAirC minor172BPM
Recordings in C minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 164 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C minorAll songs at 164 BPMC minor at 160–169 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 18 recording ids into this one. Recording id 28b55838-b327-4462-99c8-c97f00f623b3.