Cher · Love Hurts
Love and Understanding
Love and Understanding is in F major at 116.3 beats per minute.
Tempo
116 BPM · Moderatomedian of 133 analyses · 116.2–116.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F major1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 92%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 133people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 515.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.07dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.905Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.16Essentia'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
133 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 92% — put it in F major, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 133 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 116.3 BPM one beat lasts 515.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 129 ms and a dotted eighth 386.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 58.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 232.6. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 cents below 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 3.07 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 0.905 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 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 F major
Each of these differs from F 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 116 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2063.6 | 0.48 |
| Half note | 2 | 1031.8 | 0.97 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 773.9 | 1.29 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 515.9 | 1.94 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 343.9 | 2.91 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 386.9 | 2.58 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 258 | 3.88 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 172 | 5.82 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 193.5 | 5.17 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 129 | 7.75 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 86 | 11.63 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 64.5 | 15.51 |
Half time 58.2 BPM · double time 232.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (515.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Happy BirthdayStevie WonderF major116BPM
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- Miles AwayMadonnaF major116BPM
- Brown EyesDestiny’s ChildF major116BPM
- Don’t Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)Mötley CrüeF major117BPM
- Tunnel of LoveBruce SpringsteenF major117BPM
- City BurnsAndra DayF major117BPM
- ChangesMiles DavisF major117BPM
- KokomoThe Beach BoysF major116BPM
Recordings in F major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 116 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F majorAll songs at 116 BPMF major at 110–119 BPMCher
MusicBrainz collapses 16 recording ids into this one. Recording id 37a46a6f-57c8-4a8f-856b-8473b8141319.