Bronski Beat · The Age of Consent
Smalltown Boy
Smalltown Boy is in F minor at 134.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
135 BPM · Allegromedian of 174 analyses · 134.4–134.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F minor4 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 54%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 174people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 445.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 439.2Hz · -3 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.01dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.819Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.115Essentia'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
174 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 54% — put it in F minor, a key signature of 4 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 174 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 134.6 BPM one beat lasts 445.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 111.4 ms and a dotted eighth 334.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 67.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 269.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.2 Hz, which is 3 cents below 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 4.01 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 0.819 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 F 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 F minor
Each of these differs from F 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 135 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1783.1 | 0.56 |
| Half note | 2 | 891.5 | 1.12 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 668.6 | 1.5 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 445.8 | 2.24 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 297.2 | 3.37 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 334.3 | 2.99 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 222.9 | 4.49 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 148.6 | 6.73 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 167.2 | 5.98 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 111.4 | 8.97 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 74.3 | 13.46 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 55.7 | 17.95 |
Half time 67.3 BPM · double time 269.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (445.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Mony MonyBilly IdolF minor135BPM
- IntroGorillazF minor134BPM
- I Like ItCardi B, Bad Bunny & J BalvinF minor136BPM
- IntroChromeoF minor133BPM
- Something’s Got to GiveBeastie BoysF minor137BPM
- CherrycoJohn Coltrane & Don CherryF minor137BPM
- Flawless RemixBeyoncé featuring Nicki MinajF minor137BPM
- PersuasionSantanaF minor132BPM
- Queen BitchDavid BowieF minor137BPM
- ***FlawlessBeyoncé featuring Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieF minor137BPM
Recordings in F minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 135 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F minorAll songs at 135 BPMF minor at 130–139 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 87 recording ids into this one. Recording id 6333bcb0-375a-4d6a-b657-3616015453ba.