ABBA · Ring Ring
People Need Love
People Need Love is in B major at 155.1 beats per minute.
Tempo
155 BPM · Allegromedian of 195 analyses · 154.9–155.2 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B major5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 97%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 195people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 386.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441Hz · +4 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.33dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.943Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.244Essentia'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
195 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in B major, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 195 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 155.1 BPM one beat lasts 386.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 96.7 ms and a dotted eighth 290.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 77.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 310.2. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 4.33 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 0.943 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 B 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 B major
Each of these differs from B 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 155 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1547.4 | 0.65 |
| Half note | 2 | 773.7 | 1.29 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 580.3 | 1.72 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 386.8 | 2.58 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 257.9 | 3.88 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 290.1 | 3.45 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 193.4 | 5.17 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 128.9 | 7.76 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 145.1 | 6.89 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 96.7 | 10.34 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 64.5 | 15.51 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 48.4 | 20.68 |
Half time 77.6 BPM · double time 310.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (386.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- November RainGuns N’ RosesB major155BPM
- CataractsThriceB major155BPM
- Song for the AskingSimon & GarfunkelB major154BPM
- EyeThe Smashing PumpkinsB major156BPM
- Whatcha See Is Whatcha GetThe DramaticsB major153BPM
- Skinny LoveBon IverB major153BPM
- You Found MeThe FrayB major152BPM
- I’m YoursJason MrazB major151BPM
- Hate & WarThe ClashB major151BPM
- Love ManOtis ReddingB major151BPM
Recordings in B major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 155 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B majorAll songs at 155 BPMB major at 150–159 BPMABBA
MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id 5edf5416-9766-4ad7-9aa5-b8119f55da20.