TempoPeek

Blue Öyster Cult · The Revölution by Night

Take Me Away

Take Me Away is in A flat major at 117.4 beats per minute.

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Tempo

117 BPM · Moderatomedian of 129 analyses · 117.4–117.4 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A♭ major4 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
98%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
129people who ran the extractor
One beat
511.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441Hz · +4 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.36dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.933Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.259Essentia'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

129 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in A flat major, a key signature of 4 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 129 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 117.4 BPM one beat lasts 511.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 127.8 ms and a dotted eighth 383.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 58.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 234.8. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441 Hz, which is 4 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 2.36 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 0.933 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 flat 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 117 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42044.30.49
Half note21022.10.98
Dotted quarter1.5766.61.3
Quarter note (one beat)1511.11.96
Quarter triplet0.667340.72.94
Dotted eighth0.75383.32.61
Eighth note0.5255.53.91
Eighth triplet0.333170.45.87
Dotted sixteenth0.375191.75.22
Sixteenth note0.25127.87.83
Sixteenth triplet0.16785.211.74
Thirty-second note0.12563.915.65

Half time 58.7 BPM · double time 234.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (511.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. Take Me AwayAvril LavigneA minor99BPM

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. Every Breath You TakeThe PoliceA♭ major117BPM
  2. Why Can’t It Wait ’Til MorningPhil CollinsA♭ major118BPM
  3. Hero of the DayMetallicaA♭ major118BPM
  4. ParisThe 1975A♭ major117BPM
  5. Beating Around the BushAC/DCA♭ major117BPM
  6. RockerAC/DCA♭ major118BPM
  7. Tell It to My HeartTaylor DayneA♭ major118BPM
  8. Speed of LifeDavid BowieA♭ major117BPM
  9. Fire and IcePat BenatarA♭ major118BPM
  10. Burn This Disco OutMichael JacksonA♭ major116BPM

Recordings in A flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 117 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A flat majorAll songs at 117 BPMA♭ major at 110–119 BPMBlue Öyster Cult

MusicBrainz collapses 12 recording ids into this one. Recording id 6e18c988-b095-423e-a884-806cc21c8868.