Whitney Houston · Whitney Houston
You Give Good Love
You Give Good Love is in F major at 149.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
150 BPM · Allegromedian of 165 analyses · 149.5–150.8 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 58%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 165people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 401.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 446.9Hz · +27 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.97dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.697Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.027Essentia'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
165 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 58% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 165 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 149.5 to 150.8 BPM.
At 149.6 BPM one beat lasts 401.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 100.3 ms and a dotted eighth 300.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 74.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 299.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 446.9 Hz, which is 27 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 4.97 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 0.697 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 F 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 F major
Each of these differs from F 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 150 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1604.3 | 0.62 |
| Half note | 2 | 802.1 | 1.25 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 601.6 | 1.66 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 401.1 | 2.49 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 267.4 | 3.74 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 300.8 | 3.32 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 200.5 | 4.99 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 133.7 | 7.48 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 150.4 | 6.65 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 100.3 | 9.97 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 66.8 | 14.96 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 50.1 | 19.95 |
Half time 74.8 BPM · double time 299.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (401.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Do You Love MeThe ContoursF major150BPM
- The Meaning of LoveDepeche ModeF major150BPM
- DreamerSupertrampF major149BPM
- Sultans of SwingDire StraitsF major148BPM
- With This TearCéline DionF major148BPM
- Get It While You CanJanis JoplinF major148BPM
- Hole in My SoulAerosmithF major151BPM
- All AloneGorillaz featuring Roots ManuvaF major148BPM
- The PrayerCéline Dion duet with Andrea BocelliF major148BPM
- Shinbone Alley / Hard to ExistSpin DoctorsF major148BPM
Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 150 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F majorAll songs at 150 BPMF major at 140–149 BPMWhitney Houston
MusicBrainz collapses 8 recording ids into this one. Recording id 3e165cec-72b1-4811-9d3f-2b66185ff370.