Coldplay · A Rush of Blood to the Head
Clocks
Clocks is in A flat major at 131 beats per minute.
Tempo
131 BPM · Allegromedian of 289 analyses · 131–131.2 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A♭ major4 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 97%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 289people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 458milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440Hz · 0 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.53dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.931Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.085Essentia'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
289 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in A flat major, a key signature of 4 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 289 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 131 BPM one beat lasts 458 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 114.5 ms and a dotted eighth 343.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 65.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 262. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440 Hz, which is 0 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 2.53 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 0.931 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 flat major; 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♭ major
Each of these differs from A♭ major 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 131 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1832.1 | 0.55 |
| Half note | 2 | 916 | 1.09 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 687 | 1.46 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 458 | 2.18 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 305.3 | 3.28 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 343.5 | 2.91 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 229 | 4.37 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 152.7 | 6.55 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 171.8 | 5.82 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 114.5 | 8.73 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 76.3 | 13.1 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 57.3 | 17.47 |
Half time 65.5 BPM · double time 262 BPM. Every row is one beat (458 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- JudasLady GagaA♭ major131BPM
- I Drove All NightCyndi LauperA♭ major131BPM
- Stupid GirlThe Rolling StonesA♭ major131BPM
- Return to SenderElvis PresleyA♭ major132BPM
- Till the World EndsBritney SpearsA♭ major132BPM
- Oh Baby DollChuck BerryA♭ major130BPM
- ColoursPhil CollinsA♭ major130BPM
- Cool KidsEchosmithA♭ major130BPM
- All We GotChance the Rapper feat. Kanye West & Chicago Children’s ChoirA♭ major132BPM
- Total Eclipse of the HeartBonnie TylerA♭ major132BPM
Recordings in A flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 131 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A flat majorAll songs at 131 BPMA♭ major at 130–139 BPMColdplay
MusicBrainz collapses 97 recording ids into this one. Recording id 3e963c34-06d2-4a32-93d8-bd03e98d5e81.