Chicago · Chicago 18

25 or 6 to 4

25 or 6 to 4 is in A minor at 147.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

148 BPM · Allegromedian of 157 analyses · 147.6–148.2 across the middle eight tenths
Key
A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
46%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
157people who ran the extractor
One beat
406milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
439Hz · -4 cents from A 440
Dynamics
2.62dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.848Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.154Essentia'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

157 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Fewer than half of them — 46% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 157 readings; 87% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 147.8 BPM one beat lasts 406 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 101.5 ms and a dotted eighth 304.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 73.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 295.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439 Hz, which is 4 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 2.62 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 0.848 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 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 A minor

Each of these differs from A 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 148 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41623.80.62
Half note2811.91.23
Dotted quarter1.5608.91.64
Quarter note (one beat)14062.46
Quarter triplet0.667270.63.7
Dotted eighth0.75304.53.28
Eighth note0.52034.93
Eighth triplet0.333135.37.39
Dotted sixteenth0.375152.26.57
Sixteenth note0.25101.59.85
Sixteenth triplet0.16767.714.78
Thirty-second note0.12550.719.71

Half time 73.9 BPM · double time 295.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (406 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. 53 Miles West of VenusThe B‐52sA minor148BPM
  2. XChris BrownA minor148BPM
  3. InnuendoQueenA minor148BPM
  4. Bring Your Daughter… to the SlaughterIron MaidenA minor148BPM
  5. AlabamaNeil YoungA minor148BPM
  6. Blood Sugar Sex MagikRed Hot Chili PeppersA minor147BPM
  7. The View From the AfternoonArctic MonkeysA minor147BPM
  8. Love Her MadlyThe DoorsA minor147BPM
  9. Declare IndependenceBjörkA minor149BPM
  10. Bark at the MoonOzzy OsbourneA minor147BPM

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 148 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minorAll songs at 148 BPMA minor at 140–149 BPMChicago

MusicBrainz collapses 78 recording ids into this one. Recording id fcfae542-78a5-409c-a463-45adb9eeebc2.