Arctic Monkeys · AM
Do I Wanna Know?
Do I Wanna Know? is in F major at 85 beats per minute.
Tempo
85 BPM · Andantemedian of 225 analyses · 85–85 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 92%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 225people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 705.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.24dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.784Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.159Essentia'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
225 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 92% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 225 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 85 BPM one beat lasts 705.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 176.5 ms and a dotted eighth 529.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 42.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 170. A score would mark that Andante, 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 4.24 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 0.784 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 F 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 F major
Each of these differs from F 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 85 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2823.5 | 0.35 |
| Half note | 2 | 1411.8 | 0.71 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 1058.8 | 0.94 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 705.9 | 1.42 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 470.6 | 2.13 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 529.4 | 1.89 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 352.9 | 2.83 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 235.3 | 4.25 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 264.7 | 3.78 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 176.5 | 5.67 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 117.6 | 8.5 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 88.2 | 11.33 |
Half time 42.5 BPM · double time 170 BPM. Every row is one beat (705.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- XOBeyoncéF major85BPM
- Stay With MeSam SmithF major85BPM
- Over the RainbowIsrael KamakawiwoʻoleF major85BPM
- MockingbirdEminemF major85BPM
- At This MomentMichael BubléF major84BPM
- Bulls on ParadeRage Against the MachineF major84BPM
- What You Get Is What You SeeTina TurnerF major84BPM
- Rock the HouseGorillazF major86BPM
- ThunderImagine DragonsF major84BPM
- Waiting for That Day / You Can’t Always Get What You WantGeorge MichaelF major86BPM
Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 85 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F majorAll songs at 85 BPMF major at 80–89 BPMArctic Monkeys
MusicBrainz collapses 22 recording ids into this one. Recording id f1e57531-e0df-4b3e-938f-1ae30c5b1a11.