Coldplay · Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
Cemeteries of London
Cemeteries of London is in E flat minor at 146.1 beats per minute.
Tempo
146 BPM · Allegromedian of 213 analyses · 146–146.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E♭ minor6 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 96%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 213people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 410.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.06dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.781Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.016Essentia'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
213 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in E flat minor, a key signature of 6 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 213 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 146.1 BPM one beat lasts 410.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 102.7 ms and a dotted eighth 308 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 73.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 292.2. 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 5.06 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 0.781 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 flat 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 146 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1642.7 | 0.61 |
| Half note | 2 | 821.4 | 1.22 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 616 | 1.62 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 410.7 | 2.44 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 273.8 | 3.65 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 308 | 3.25 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 205.3 | 4.87 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 136.9 | 7.31 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 154 | 6.49 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 102.7 | 9.74 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 68.4 | 14.61 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 51.3 | 19.48 |
Half time 73.1 BPM · double time 292.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (410.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Midnight ShowThe KillersE♭ minor144BPM
- Four HorsemenThe ClashE♭ minor143BPM
- I Believe to My SoulRay CharlesE♭ minor143BPM
- Full ThrottleThe ProdigyE♭ minor150BPM
- Ace of SpadesMotörheadE♭ minor140BPM
- Kiss KissChris Brown feat. T‐PainE♭ minor140BPM
- Civil WarGuns N’ RosesE♭ minor140BPM
- Shanti / AshtangiMadonnaE♭ minor140BPM
- Beat ItMichael JacksonE♭ minor139BPM
- Stories for BoysU2E♭ minor155BPM
Recordings in E flat minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 146 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E flat minorAll songs at 146 BPME♭ minor at 140–149 BPMColdplay
MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id a89d3e81-cf59-4da2-a1ca-4d45811dabb7.