TempoPeek

Adele · 25

All I Ask

All I Ask is in E major at 142.4 beats per minute.

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Tempo

142 BPM · Allegromedian of 256 analyses · 140.9–142.5 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
100%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
256people who ran the extractor
One beat
421.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
439.7Hz · -1 cents from A 440
Dynamics
6.12dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.533Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.956Essentia'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

256 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 256 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 140.9 to 142.5 BPM.

At 142.4 BPM one beat lasts 421.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 105.3 ms and a dotted eighth 316 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 71.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 284.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.7 Hz, which is 1 cents below 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 6.12 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 0.533 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 E 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 E major

Each of these differs from E 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 142 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41685.40.59
Half note2842.71.19
Dotted quarter1.56321.58
Quarter note (one beat)1421.32.37
Quarter triplet0.667280.93.56
Dotted eighth0.753163.16
Eighth note0.5210.74.75
Eighth triplet0.333140.47.12
Dotted sixteenth0.3751586.33
Sixteenth note0.25105.39.49
Sixteenth triplet0.16770.214.24
Thirty-second note0.12552.718.99

Half time 71.2 BPM · double time 284.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (421.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Stickshifts and SafetybeltsCAKEE major142BPM
  2. The CaveMumford & SonsE major142BPM
  3. Peaceful Easy FeelingEaglesE major143BPM
  4. A Pillow of WindsPink FloydE major143BPM
  5. Rocks OffThe Rolling StonesE major142BPM
  6. Distant LoverMarvin GayeE major142BPM
  7. AlwaysBon JoviE major143BPM
  8. Brighton RockQueenE major143BPM
  9. Side F/XShotgun MessiahE major143BPM
  10. Horseshoes and HandgrenadesGreen DayE major143BPM

Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 142 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E majorAll songs at 142 BPME major at 140–149 BPMAdele

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id bfe7a94e-4161-4802-8916-efe57e611842.