ABBA · ABBA
SOS
SOS is in F major at 125.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
126 BPM · Allegromedian of 378 analyses · 125.5–125.7 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 378people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 477.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 441.5Hz · +6 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.45dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.776Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1Essentia'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
378 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 378 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 125.6 BPM one beat lasts 477.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 119.4 ms and a dotted eighth 358.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 62.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 251.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.5 Hz, which is 6 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 4.45 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 0.776 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 126 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1910.8 | 0.52 |
| Half note | 2 | 955.4 | 1.05 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 716.6 | 1.4 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 477.7 | 2.09 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 318.5 | 3.14 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 358.3 | 2.79 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 238.9 | 4.19 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 159.2 | 6.28 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 179.1 | 5.58 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 119.4 | 8.37 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 79.6 | 12.56 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 59.7 | 16.75 |
Half time 62.8 BPM · double time 251.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (477.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
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- Shout Out to My ExLittle MixF major126BPM
- Follow MeCraig DavidF major126BPM
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Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 126 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F majorAll songs at 126 BPMF major at 120–129 BPMABBA
MusicBrainz collapses 17 recording ids into this one. Recording id f2ada1c9-fa39-4d15-aa11-9bd798a885a9.