TempoPeek

AC/DC · Flick of the Switch

Badlands

Badlands is in G minor at 106.7 beats per minute.

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Tempo

107 BPM · Andantemedian of 130 analyses · 106.6–107 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G minor2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
72%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
130people who ran the extractor
One beat
562.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
438.2Hz · -7 cents from A 440
Dynamics
1.9dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.928Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.32Essentia'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

130 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 72% — put it in G minor, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 130 readings; 95% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 106.7 BPM one beat lasts 562.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 140.6 ms and a dotted eighth 421.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 53.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 213.4. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.2 Hz, which is 7 cents below 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 1.9 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 0.928 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 G minor; 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 G minor

Each of these differs from G minor 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 note42249.30.44
Half note21124.60.89
Dotted quarter1.5843.51.19
Quarter note (one beat)1562.31.78
Quarter triplet0.667374.92.67
Dotted eighth0.75421.72.37
Eighth note0.5281.23.56
Eighth triplet0.333187.45.34
Dotted sixteenth0.375210.94.74
Sixteenth note0.25140.67.11
Sixteenth triplet0.16793.710.67
Thirty-second note0.12570.314.23

Half time 53.4 BPM · double time 213.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (562.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. BadlandsBruce Springsteen & The E Street BandE major123BPM

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. Joints & JamBlack Eyed PeasG minor107BPM
  2. Forty Six & 2ToolG minor106BPM
  3. Play MeNeil DiamondG minor106BPM
  4. Like a StoneAudioslaveG minor108BPM
  5. Even FlowPearl JamG minor105BPM
  6. The MoocheLouis Armstrong & Duke EllingtonG minor108BPM
  7. Une année sans lumièreArcade FireG minor105BPM
  8. RockerMiles DavisG minor103BPM
  9. Golden LadyStevie WonderG minor103BPM
  10. The Wanton SongLed ZeppelinG minor111BPM

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

All songs in G minorAll songs at 107 BPMG minor at 100–109 BPMAC/DC

MusicBrainz collapses 6 recording ids into this one. Recording id be8e77b7-d655-455e-8513-c3d1b8f212ad.