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Island in the Sun
Island in the Sun is in D major at 114.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
115 BPM · Moderatomedian of 160 analyses · 114.6–114.7 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 91%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 160people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 523.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.44dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.881Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.147Essentia'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
160 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 91% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 160 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 114.7 BPM one beat lasts 523.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 130.8 ms and a dotted eighth 392.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 57.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 229.4. A score would mark that Moderato, 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 3.44 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 0.881 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 115 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2092.4 | 0.48 |
| Half note | 2 | 1046.2 | 0.96 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 784.7 | 1.27 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 523.1 | 1.91 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 348.7 | 2.87 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 392.3 | 2.55 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 261.6 | 3.82 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 174.4 | 5.74 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 196.2 | 5.1 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 130.8 | 7.65 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 87.2 | 11.47 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 65.4 | 15.29 |
Half time 57.4 BPM · double time 229.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (523.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
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- Doolin‐Dalton / Desperado (reprise)EaglesD major114BPM
- Dance, DanceFall Out BoyD major114BPM
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- PerfectThe Smashing PumpkinsD major114BPM
- The Wanderer (take 1)Dion & The BelmontsD major115BPM
- The GnomePink FloydD major115BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 115 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 115 BPMD major at 110–119 BPMWeezer
MusicBrainz collapses 33 recording ids into this one. Recording id 58044028-9a7e-4da6-9ca8-e5322a25d9a2.