TempoPeek

Billy Joel · Storm Front

And So It Goes

And So It Goes is in C major at 135.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

136 BPM · Allegromedian of 160 analyses · 126.4–136.3 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
99%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
160people who ran the extractor
One beat
441.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440Hz · 0 cents from A 440
Dynamics
6.03dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.324Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
0.89Essentia'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

160 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 160 readings; 57% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 126.4 to 136.3 BPM.

At 135.8 BPM one beat lasts 441.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 110.5 ms and a dotted eighth 331.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 67.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 271.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440 Hz, which is 0 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 6.03 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 0.324 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 C 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 C major

Each of these differs from C 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 136 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41767.30.57
Half note2883.71.13
Dotted quarter1.5662.71.51
Quarter note (one beat)1441.82.26
Quarter triplet0.667294.63.4
Dotted eighth0.75331.43.02
Eighth note0.5220.94.53
Eighth triplet0.333147.36.79
Dotted sixteenth0.375165.76.04
Sixteenth note0.25110.59.05
Sixteenth triplet0.16773.613.58
Thirty-second note0.12555.218.11

Half time 67.9 BPM · double time 271.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (441.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. SatelliteCollective SoulC major136BPM
  2. Under the Milky WayThe ChurchC major136BPM
  3. La Vie en roseLouis Armstrong with Sy Oliver’s OrchestraC major136BPM
  4. I Wonder (Departure)ABBAC major136BPM
  5. See SawAretha FranklinC major136BPM
  6. Material GirlMadonnaC major136BPM
  7. Burnin’ for YouBlue Öyster CultC major135BPM
  8. MotherPink FloydC major135BPM
  9. bad guyBillie EilishC major135BPM
  10. From Me to YouThe BeatlesC major137BPM

Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 136 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C majorAll songs at 136 BPMC major at 130–139 BPMBilly Joel

MusicBrainz collapses 11 recording ids into this one. Recording id 0cd83d6f-ff20-4fa0-9eda-458d81ed537a.