AC/DC · Black Ice
Wheels
Wheels is in A major at 132.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
132 BPM · Allegromedian of 136 analyses · 132.3–132.4 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 96%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 136people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 453.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.5Hz · +2 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.06dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.951Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.221Essentia'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
136 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 136 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 132.4 BPM one beat lasts 453.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 113.3 ms and a dotted eighth 339.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 66.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 264.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.5 Hz, which is 2 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 2.06 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 0.951 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 132 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1812.7 | 0.55 |
| Half note | 2 | 906.3 | 1.1 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 679.8 | 1.47 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 453.2 | 2.21 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 302.1 | 3.31 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 339.9 | 2.94 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 226.6 | 4.41 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 151.1 | 6.62 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 169.9 | 5.88 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 113.3 | 8.83 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 75.5 | 13.24 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 56.6 | 17.65 |
Half time 66.2 BPM · double time 264.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (453.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
The same title by somebody else
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
- Givin the Dog a BoneAC/DCA major133BPM
- Happy New YearABBAA major133BPM
- I’m Goin’ DownBruce SpringsteenA major133BPM
- For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)AC/DCA major133BPM
- Change Your LifeIggy Azalea feat. T.I.A major132BPM
- Forty or FiftySpin DoctorsA major133BPM
- Please Mr. PostmanCarpentersA major133BPM
- The ForgottenGreen DayA major132BPM
- This SongMeat PuppetsA major132BPM
- Maxwell’s Silver HammerThe BeatlesA major132BPM
Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 132 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A majorAll songs at 132 BPMA major at 130–139 BPMAC/DC
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 5e705a8b-2cad-4923-ae2e-4af1a220a508.