Backstreet Boys · Black & Blue
It’s True
It’s True is in F sharp major at 162.1 beats per minute.
Tempo
162 BPM · Vivacemedian of 143 analyses · 162.1–162.2 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F♯ major6 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 143people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 370.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.73dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.629Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.025Essentia'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
143 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in F sharp major, a key signature of 6 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 143 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 162.1 BPM one beat lasts 370.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 92.5 ms and a dotted eighth 277.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 81.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 324.2. 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 4.73 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 0.629 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 sharp 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 162 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1480.6 | 0.68 |
| Half note | 2 | 740.3 | 1.35 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 555.2 | 1.8 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 370.1 | 2.7 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 246.8 | 4.05 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 277.6 | 3.6 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 185.1 | 5.4 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 123.4 | 8.11 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 138.8 | 7.2 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 92.5 | 10.81 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 61.7 | 16.21 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 46.3 | 21.61 |
Half time 81.1 BPM · double time 324.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (370.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Oh! You Pretty ThingsDavid BowieF♯ major162BPM
- He’s Misstra Know‐It‐AllStevie WonderF♯ major162BPM
- Something That I Already KnowBackstreet BoysF♯ major162BPM
- A Winter’s TaleQueenF♯ major163BPM
- Better in TimeLeona LewisF♯ major164BPM
- Travelin’ BandCreedence Clearwater RevivalF♯ major165BPM
- Psychotic ReactionCount FiveF♯ major165BPM
- MichaelFranz FerdinandF♯ major156BPM
- Country GirlBlack SabbathF♯ major156BPM
- What’s My Age Again?blink‐182F♯ major156BPM
Recordings in F sharp major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 162 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F sharp majorAll songs at 162 BPMF♯ major at 160–169 BPMBackstreet Boys
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id bccad716-7ff1-4260-ab05-9ccfa48c0d85.