TempoPeek

ABBA · The Album

Take a Chance on Me

Take a Chance on Me is in B major at 106.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

107 BPM · Andantemedian of 388 analyses · 106.7–107.1 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B major5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
388people who ran the extractor
One beat
561.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
442Hz · +8 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.12dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.936Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.458Essentia'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

388 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in B major, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 388 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 106.8 BPM one beat lasts 561.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 140.4 ms and a dotted eighth 421.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 53.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 213.6. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 442 Hz, which is 8 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 4.12 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 0.936 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 107 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42247.20.45
Half note21123.60.89
Dotted quarter1.5842.71.19
Quarter note (one beat)1561.81.78
Quarter triplet0.667374.52.67
Dotted eighth0.75421.32.37
Eighth note0.5280.93.56
Eighth triplet0.333187.35.34
Dotted sixteenth0.375210.74.75
Sixteenth note0.25140.47.12
Sixteenth triplet0.16793.610.68
Thirty-second note0.12570.214.24

Half time 53.4 BPM · double time 213.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (561.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. Take a Chance on MeErasureD♭ major118BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. VegetableRadioheadB major107BPM
  2. Kill YouEminemB major107BPM
  3. Snow ((Hey Oh))Red Hot Chili PeppersB major106BPM
  4. Sir DukeStevie WonderB major108BPM
  5. Little 15Depeche ModeB major108BPM
  6. Gettin’ Jiggy Wit ItWill SmithB major108BPM
  7. 9 to 5Dolly PartonB major106BPM
  8. GirlsThe 1975B major108BPM
  9. You Oughta KnowAlanis MorissetteB major105BPM
  10. If I Could Turn Back TimeCherB major108BPM

Recordings in B major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 107 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in B majorAll songs at 107 BPMB major at 100–109 BPMABBA

MusicBrainz collapses 33 recording ids into this one. Recording id ebfcb2ca-1285-4baf-8a9c-b09e737926d8.