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What Do You Do for Money Honey

What Do You Do for Money Honey is in A major at 126.1 beats per minute.

Tempo

126 BPM · Allegromedian of 391 analyses · 125.8–126.1 across the middle eight tenths

Key: A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement: 87%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses: 391people who ran the extractor
One beat: 475.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning: 441.3Hz · +5 cents from A 440
Dynamics: 2.55dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness: 0.923Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability: 1.265Essentia'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

391 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 87% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 391 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 126.1 BPM one beat lasts 475.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 119 ms and a dotted eighth 356.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 63.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 252.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.3 Hz, which is 5 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 2.55 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 0.923 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 126 BPM

Note value	Beats	Milliseconds	Hertz
Whole note	4	1903.3	0.53
Half note	2	951.6	1.05
Dotted quarter	1.5	713.7	1.4
Quarter note (one beat)	1	475.8	2.1
Quarter triplet	0.667	317.2	3.15
Dotted eighth	0.75	356.9	2.8
Eighth note	0.5	237.9	4.2
Eighth triplet	0.333	158.6	6.31
Dotted sixteenth	0.375	178.4	5.6
Sixteenth note	0.25	119	8.41
Sixteenth triplet	0.167	79.3	12.61
Thirty-second note	0.125	59.5	16.81

Half time 63.1 BPM · double time 252.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (475.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 126 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A major All songs at 126 BPM A major at 120–129 BPM AC/DC

MusicBrainz collapses 24 recording ids into this one. Recording id d66a0461-ed4f-4cd8-8095-0aeae25bcea1.