TempoPeek

Beck · Mellow Gold

Loser

Loser is in D minor at 85.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

85 BPM · Andantemedian of 235 analyses · 85.3–85.4 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
84%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
235people who ran the extractor
One beat
703.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.2dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.935Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.285Essentia'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

235 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 84% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 235 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 85.3 BPM one beat lasts 703.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 175.8 ms and a dotted eighth 527.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 42.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 170.6. 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 4.2 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 0.935 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 minor; 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 minor

Each of these differs from D minor 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 valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42813.60.36
Half note21406.80.71
Dotted quarter1.51055.10.95
Quarter note (one beat)1703.41.42
Quarter triplet0.667468.92.13
Dotted eighth0.75527.51.9
Eighth note0.5351.72.84
Eighth triplet0.333234.54.26
Dotted sixteenth0.375263.83.79
Sixteenth note0.25175.85.69
Sixteenth triplet0.167117.28.53
Thirty-second note0.12587.911.37

Half time 42.7 BPM · double time 170.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (703.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. Loser3 Doors DownD major148BPM

Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Can’t Stop Rock ’n’ RollAC/DCD minor85BPM
  2. So What’cha WantBeastie BoysD minor85BPM
  3. KarmaAlicia KeysD minor85BPM
  4. I Knew I Loved YouSavage GardenD minor85BPM
  5. PipelineThe Alan Parsons ProjectD minor86BPM
  6. WarningThe Notorious B.I.G.D minor86BPM
  7. DramaErykah BaduD minor86BPM
  8. Meet the ParentsJay‐ZD minor84BPM
  9. She’s on FireAerosmithD minor87BPM
  10. Negative CreepNirvanaD minor83BPM

Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 85 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D minorAll songs at 85 BPMD minor at 80–89 BPMBeck

MusicBrainz collapses 61 recording ids into this one. Recording id 9d9e92f9-695e-4fca-af9d-0ecda1c6de43.