Bruce Springsteen · Born in the U.S.A.
Dancing in the Dark
Dancing in the Dark is in B major at 148.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
149 BPM · Allegromedian of 295 analyses · 148.1–148.8 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B major5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 96%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 295people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 403.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.5Hz · +2 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.66dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.898Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.251Essentia'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
295 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in B major, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 295 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 148.7 BPM one beat lasts 403.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 100.9 ms and a dotted eighth 302.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 74.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 297.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.5 Hz, which is 2 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 3.66 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 0.898 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 B 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 B major
Each of these differs from B 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 149 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1614 | 0.62 |
| Half note | 2 | 807 | 1.24 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 605.2 | 1.65 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 403.5 | 2.48 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 269 | 3.72 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 302.6 | 3.3 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 201.7 | 4.96 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 134.5 | 7.44 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 151.3 | 6.61 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 100.9 | 9.91 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 67.2 | 14.87 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 50.4 | 19.83 |
Half time 74.4 BPM · double time 297.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (403.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- London’s BurningThe ClashB major148BPM
- How to Draw / PetrichorThe 1975B major148BPM
- Love ManOtis ReddingB major151BPM
- Hate & WarThe ClashB major151BPM
- I’m YoursJason MrazB major151BPM
- You Can Let GoBackstreet BoysB major146BPM
- Gone Too SoonMichael JacksonB major145BPM
- You Found MeThe FrayB major152BPM
- Skinny LoveBon IverB major153BPM
- Whatcha See Is Whatcha GetThe DramaticsB major153BPM
Recordings in B major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 149 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B majorAll songs at 149 BPMB major at 140–149 BPMBruce Springsteen
MusicBrainz collapses 159 recording ids into this one. Recording id f2f99a81-9375-4557-8138-2a0a297f5c85.