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Ice Ice Baby
Ice Ice Baby is in G minor at 115.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
116 BPM · Moderatomedian of 132 analyses · 115.6–116.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G minor2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 83%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 132people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 518.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441Hz · +4 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.6dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.88Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.345Essentia'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
132 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 83% — put it in G minor, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 132 readings; 95% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 115.7 BPM one beat lasts 518.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 129.6 ms and a dotted eighth 388.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 57.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 231.4. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441 Hz, which is 4 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 4.6 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 0.88 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 G 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 G minor
Each of these differs from G 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 116 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2074.3 | 0.48 |
| Half note | 2 | 1037.2 | 0.96 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 777.9 | 1.29 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 518.6 | 1.93 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 345.7 | 2.89 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 388.9 | 2.57 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 259.3 | 3.86 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 172.9 | 5.79 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 194.5 | 5.14 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 129.6 | 7.71 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 86.4 | 11.57 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 64.8 | 15.43 |
Half time 57.9 BPM · double time 231.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (518.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Naked in the RainRed Hot Chili PeppersG minor117BPM
- Daffodil LamentThe CranberriesG minor117BPM
- Goodbye Pork Pie HatJeff BeckG minor117BPM
- Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees)AerosmithG minor117BPM
- Scream Like a BabyDavid BowieG minor114BPM
- Flamenco SketchesMiles DavisG minor117BPM
- Monty Got a Raw DealR.E.M.G minor118BPM
- Someday You Will Be LovedDeath Cab for CutieG minor113BPM
- Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)Talking HeadsG minor113BPM
- Feeling GoodNina SimoneG minor112BPM
Recordings in G minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 116 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G minorAll songs at 116 BPMG minor at 110–119 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 100 recording ids into this one. Recording id 875c24bc-fe9e-4ac6-80d3-beaacb70ee43.