Adele · 21
Someone Like You
Someone Like You is in A major at 135.1 beats per minute.
Tempo
135 BPM · Allegromedian of 443 analyses · 135–135.3 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
- 443people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 444.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 437.7Hz · -9 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.99dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.748Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.002Essentia'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
443 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 443 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 135.1 BPM one beat lasts 444.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 111 ms and a dotted eighth 333.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 67.6 BPM, counted twice as fast 270.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437.7 Hz, which is 9 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 4.99 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 0.748 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 135 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1776.5 | 0.56 |
| Half note | 2 | 888.2 | 1.13 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 666.2 | 1.5 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 444.1 | 2.25 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 296.1 | 3.38 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 333.1 | 3 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 222.1 | 4.5 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 148 | 6.76 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 166.5 | 6 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 111 | 9.01 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 74 | 13.51 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 55.5 | 18.01 |
Half time 67.6 BPM · double time 270.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (444.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Rock Is DeadMarilyn MansonA major135BPM
- I’ll Feel a Whole Lot BetterThe ByrdsA major135BPM
- Put the Finger on YouAC/DCA major135BPM
- Pre‐Road DownsCrosby, Stills, Nash & YoungA major135BPM
- All the MadmenDavid BowieA major136BPM
- Everything’s Not Lost / Life Is for LivingColdplayA major136BPM
- Odds and EndsBob Dylan & The BandA major135BPM
- I Will Always Love YouWhitney HoustonA major135BPM
- Bell Bottom BluesDerek and the DominosA major135BPM
- Never Say GoodbyeBon JoviA major136BPM
Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 135 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A majorAll songs at 135 BPMA major at 130–139 BPMAdele
MusicBrainz collapses 14 recording ids into this one. Recording id 028efe7f-cdfb-4135-846f-848f2fff15b1.