TempoPeek

ABBA · ABBA

I’ve Been Waiting for You

I’ve Been Waiting for You is in A major at 153.4 beats per minute.

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Tempo

153 BPM · Allegromedian of 178 analyses · 153.2–153.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
96%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
178people who ran the extractor
One beat
391.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441.8Hz · +7 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.29dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.812Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.062Essentia'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

178 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 178 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 153.4 BPM one beat lasts 391.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 97.8 ms and a dotted eighth 293.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 76.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 306.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.8 Hz, which is 7 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 4.29 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 0.812 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 A 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 A major

Each of these differs from A 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 153 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41564.50.64
Half note2782.31.28
Dotted quarter1.5586.71.7
Quarter note (one beat)1391.12.56
Quarter triplet0.667260.83.84
Dotted eighth0.75293.43.41
Eighth note0.5195.65.11
Eighth triplet0.333130.47.67
Dotted sixteenth0.375146.76.82
Sixteenth note0.2597.810.23
Sixteenth triplet0.16765.215.34
Thirty-second note0.12548.920.45

Half time 76.7 BPM · double time 306.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (391.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Give Me NovacaineGreen DayA major154BPM
  2. Sex on FireKings of LeonA major153BPM
  3. In Some Small WayCéline DionA major154BPM
  4. My HeroFoo FightersA major154BPM
  5. GeneratorFoo FightersA major153BPM
  6. Suite: Judy Blue EyesCrosby, Stills & NashA major153BPM
  7. Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)Led ZeppelinA major153BPM
  8. Everything I OwnBreadA major153BPM
  9. The Name of the GameABBAA major154BPM
  10. We Got the BeatGo‐Go’sA major152BPM

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 153 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A majorAll songs at 153 BPMA major at 150–159 BPMABBA

MusicBrainz collapses 6 recording ids into this one. Recording id 4ec945b4-a930-4f8a-a035-d0cb0d31bb43.