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Hurt
Hurt is in E minor at 144.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
145 BPM · Allegromedian of 329 analyses · 144.6–147.6 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 329people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 414.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.3Hz · +1 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 8.7dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.279Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.967Essentia'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
329 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 329 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 144.6 to 147.6 BPM.
At 144.9 BPM one beat lasts 414.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 103.5 ms and a dotted eighth 310.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 72.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 289.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.3 Hz, which is 1 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 8.7 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 0.279 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 E 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 E minor
Each of these differs from E 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 145 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1656.3 | 0.6 |
| Half note | 2 | 828.2 | 1.21 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 621.1 | 1.61 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 414.1 | 2.42 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 276.1 | 3.62 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 310.6 | 3.22 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 207 | 4.83 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 138 | 7.25 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 155.3 | 6.44 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 103.5 | 9.66 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 69 | 14.49 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 51.8 | 19.32 |
Half time 72.5 BPM · double time 289.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (414.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
The same title by somebody else
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
- Darts of PleasureFranz FerdinandE minor145BPM
- Ride Across the RiverDire StraitsE minor145BPM
- East Jesus NowhereGreen DayE minor144BPM
- Yellow BellyThriceE minor144BPM
- Fitzpleasurealt‐JE minor144BPM
- StarriderForeignerE minor146BPM
- SomaSmashing PumpkinsE minor144BPM
- The Guitar ManBreadE minor144BPM
- Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)David BowieE minor143BPM
- Achilles Last StandLed ZeppelinE minor147BPM
Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 145 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E minorAll songs at 145 BPME minor at 140–149 BPMChristina Aguilera
MusicBrainz collapses 20 recording ids into this one. Recording id f784ee3c-be6c-48cb-8421-c878f2d840b4.