Song comparisons

Soothe My Soul by Depeche Mode and What If by Tokio Hotel: how alike are they?

Sonalize compared the two recordings: 12%, unrelated.

12%Unrelated
Harmony39%
Melody29%
Sound81%
Rhythm43%

These tracks have no more in common than unrelated songs usually do.

Soothe My SoulWhat If
ArtistDepeche ModeTokio Hotel
KeyG MinorF# Minor
Tempo123 BPM110 BPM
Most alike passage3:16–3:400:00–0:23

Track B moved down 4 semitones (F# Minor to G Minor)

On Sonalize’s other-version check (a cover-song model), this pair is alike in style, as songs of the same genre often are, though not the closeness of another version (distance 1.77; other versions of a song in these comparisons have a median of 0.31, different songs that sound alike 1.27, random pairs 2.95).

How this was measured

Compared from the full recordings; Sonalize's fingerprint lookup confirmed both songs. The same engine runs in the Sonalize app on your own device. A score measures how alike two recordings are; it isn't a finding about copying, legal advice, or a rights clearance.

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