Black Sabbath · Paranoid
Wicked World
Wicked World is in A major at 165.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
165 BPM · Vivacemedian of 147 analyses · 165.2–165.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 89%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 147people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 362.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 447.4Hz · +29 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.51dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.734Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.001Essentia'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
147 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 89% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 147 readings; 95% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 165.4 BPM one beat lasts 362.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 90.7 ms and a dotted eighth 272.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 82.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 330.8. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 447.4 Hz, which is 29 cents above 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 3.51 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 0.734 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 A 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 A major
Each of these differs from A 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 165 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1451 | 0.69 |
| Half note | 2 | 725.5 | 1.38 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 544.1 | 1.84 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 362.8 | 2.76 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 241.8 | 4.14 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 272.1 | 3.68 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 181.4 | 5.51 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 120.9 | 8.27 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 136 | 7.35 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 90.7 | 11.03 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 60.5 | 16.54 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 45.3 | 22.05 |
Half time 82.7 BPM · double time 330.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (362.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Nervous ShakedownAC/DCA major165BPM
- Magical Mystery TourThe BeatlesA major166BPM
- The ReasonHoobastankA major166BPM
- I’ve Got a FeelingThe BeatlesA major165BPM
- Rock and Roll MusicThe BeatlesA major166BPM
- Holy SmokeIron MaidenA major165BPM
- ChiquititaABBAA major166BPM
- DeepPearl JamA major165BPM
- What Is and What Should Never BeLed ZeppelinA major165BPM
- IrresistibleFall Out BoyA major165BPM
Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 165 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A majorAll songs at 165 BPMA major at 160–169 BPMBlack Sabbath
MusicBrainz collapses 16 recording ids into this one. Recording id 29fe8806-472c-4629-8945-cc670c0a2855.