Coldplay · Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
42
42 is in F minor at 142.1 beats per minute.
Tempo
142 BPM · Allegromedian of 203 analyses · 142–142.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- F minor4 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 203people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 422.2milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 438Hz · -8 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.43dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.717Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.035Essentia'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
203 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in F minor, a key signature of 4 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 203 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 142.1 BPM one beat lasts 422.2 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 105.6 ms and a dotted eighth 316.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 71.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 284.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438 Hz, which is 8 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 5.43 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 0.717 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 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 F minor
Each of these differs from F 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 142 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1689 | 0.59 |
| Half note | 2 | 844.5 | 1.18 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 633.4 | 1.58 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 422.2 | 2.37 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 281.5 | 3.55 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 316.7 | 3.16 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 211.1 | 4.74 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 140.7 | 7.11 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 158.3 | 6.32 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 105.6 | 9.47 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 70.4 | 14.21 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 52.8 | 18.95 |
Half time 71.1 BPM · double time 284.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (422.2 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- BenzinRammsteinF minor142BPM
- Up in ArmsFoo FightersF minor143BPM
- Lemon TreeFool’s GardenF minor143BPM
- Everybody’s SomethingChance the Rapper feat. Saba & BJ the Chicago KidF minor144BPM
- Focus on SanityJohn Coltrane & Don CherryF minor144BPM
- Niggas in ParisJay‐Z & Kanye WestF minor140BPM
- Too Long (Gonzales version)Daft PunkF minor140BPM
- Birthday Song2 Chainz featuring Kanye WestF minor140BPM
- Cursum PerficioEnyaF minor140BPM
- Wild HorsesBishop BriggsF minor140BPM
Recordings in F minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 142 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in F minorAll songs at 142 BPMF minor at 140–149 BPMColdplay
MusicBrainz collapses 7 recording ids into this one. Recording id fc5f3234-18b3-4218-bc73-aad533dfaeb3.