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Welcome is in A minor at 155 beats per minute.
Tempo
155 BPM · Allegromedian of 155 analyses · 155–155.2 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 96%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 155people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 387.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 6.3dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.73Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.937Essentia'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
155 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 155 readings; 96% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 155 BPM one beat lasts 387.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 96.8 ms and a dotted eighth 290.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 77.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 310. A score would mark that Allegro, 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 6.3 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 0.73 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 155 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1548.4 | 0.65 |
| Half note | 2 | 774.2 | 1.29 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 580.6 | 1.72 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 387.1 | 2.58 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 258.1 | 3.88 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 290.3 | 3.44 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 193.5 | 5.17 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 129 | 7.75 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 145.2 | 6.89 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 96.8 | 10.33 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 64.5 | 15.5 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 48.4 | 20.67 |
Half time 77.5 BPM · double time 310 BPM. Every row is one beat (387.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Wooden ShipsCrosby, Stills & NashA minor155BPM
- Those ShoesEaglesA minor155BPM
- So Much Trouble in the WorldBob Marley & The WailersA minor155BPM
- Une colombeCéline DionA minor155BPM
- Ain’t No SunshineBill WithersA minor155BPM
- Who by FireLeonard CohenA minor155BPM
- SaraBob DylanA minor156BPM
- Sir Psycho SexyRed Hot Chili PeppersA minor154BPM
- Hey HeyEric ClaptonA minor156BPM
- Our First TimeBruno MarsA minor156BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 155 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 155 BPMA minor at 150–159 BPMChristina Aguilera
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id e1574f8f-6ef1-4d7f-9bb5-233a258cbadc.