Adele · 19
Melt My Heart to Stone
Melt My Heart to Stone is in D major at 162.5 beats per minute.
Tempo
163 BPM · Vivacemedian of 290 analyses · 162.4–162.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 80%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 290people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 369.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.05dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.7Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.057Essentia'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
290 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 80% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 290 readings; 92% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 162.5 BPM one beat lasts 369.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 92.3 ms and a dotted eighth 276.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 81.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 325. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 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 5.05 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 0.7 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 D 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 D major
Each of these differs from D 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 163 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1476.9 | 0.68 |
| Half note | 2 | 738.5 | 1.35 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 553.8 | 1.81 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 369.2 | 2.71 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 246.2 | 4.06 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 276.9 | 3.61 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 184.6 | 5.42 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 123.1 | 8.13 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 138.5 | 7.22 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 92.3 | 10.83 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 61.5 | 16.25 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 46.2 | 21.67 |
Half time 81.3 BPM · double time 325 BPM. Every row is one beat (369.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- CrazyAerosmithD major163BPM
- I Can’t Quit You BabyLed ZeppelinD major163BPM
- DreamingBlondieD major162BPM
- She Came In Through the Bathroom WindowThe BeatlesD major163BPM
- The MiddleJimmy Eat WorldD major162BPM
- SparkleAretha FranklinD major162BPM
- Belfast ChildSimple MindsD major162BPM
- Roll Over BeethovenThe BeatlesD major163BPM
- One Way or AnotherBlondieD major163BPM
- RemedyAdeleD major163BPM
Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 163 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D majorAll songs at 163 BPMD major at 160–169 BPMAdele
MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id 44dc19cb-fe11-4e79-9d52-b5866812f2e0.