Billy Joel · Storm Front
Shameless
Shameless is in G major at 140.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
141 BPM · Allegromedian of 170 analyses · 140.5–140.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 170people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 426.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.4dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.846Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.112Essentia'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
170 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 170 readings; 92% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 140.6 BPM one beat lasts 426.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 106.7 ms and a dotted eighth 320.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 70.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 281.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.3 Hz, which is 1 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 4.4 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 0.846 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 G 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 G major
Each of these differs from G 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 141 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1707 | 0.59 |
| Half note | 2 | 853.5 | 1.17 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 640.1 | 1.56 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 426.7 | 2.34 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 284.5 | 3.52 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 320.1 | 3.12 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 213.4 | 4.69 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 142.2 | 7.03 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 160 | 6.25 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 106.7 | 9.37 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 71.1 | 14.06 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 53.3 | 18.75 |
Half time 70.3 BPM · double time 281.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (426.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- SuperheroesDaft PunkG major141BPM
- Wooly BullySam the Sham & the PharaohsG major140BPM
- All Down the LineThe Rolling StonesG major140BPM
- 505Arctic MonkeysG major140BPM
- Walk AwayBen HarperG major140BPM
- DianaPaul AnkaG major140BPM
- Let’s Spend the Night TogetherThe Rolling StonesG major141BPM
- Tiny KingdomMeat PuppetsG major140BPM
- She Shook Me ColdDavid BowieG major140BPM
- GorillaBruno MarsG major140BPM
Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 141 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in G majorAll songs at 141 BPMG major at 140–149 BPMBilly Joel
MusicBrainz collapses 8 recording ids into this one. Recording id e9e1ebd1-10af-4457-a2f4-167a8402e1a8.