Coldplay · Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends

Lost!

Lost! is in G major at 86.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

87 BPM · Andantemedian of 218 analyses · 86.8–87 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
97%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
218people who ran the extractor
One beat
690.4milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.8Hz · +3 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.78dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.886Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.132Essentia'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

218 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 218 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 86.9 BPM one beat lasts 690.4 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 172.6 ms and a dotted eighth 517.8 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 43.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 173.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.8 Hz, which is 3 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 3.78 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 0.886 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 G 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 G major

Each of these differs from G 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 87 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42761.80.36
Half note21380.90.72
Dotted quarter1.51035.70.97
Quarter note (one beat)1690.41.45
Quarter triplet0.667460.32.17
Dotted eighth0.75517.81.93
Eighth note0.5345.22.9
Eighth triplet0.333230.14.35
Dotted sixteenth0.375258.93.86
Sixteenth note0.25172.65.79
Sixteenth triplet0.167115.18.69
Thirty-second note0.12586.311.59

Half time 43.5 BPM · double time 173.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (690.4 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. LostChance the Rapper feat. Noname GypsyE major120BPM

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

  1. Versace on the FloorBruno MarsG major87BPM
  2. WomenDef LeppardG major86BPM
  3. Walking AwayCraig DavidG major86BPM
  4. Holding Back the YearsSimply RedG major86BPM
  5. If You Asked Me ToCéline DionG major86BPM
  6. I Take What I WantAretha FranklinG major88BPM
  7. We Are Never Ever Getting Back TogetherTaylor SwiftG major86BPM
  8. Un‐Thinkable (I’m Ready)Alicia KeysG major86BPM
  9. CupidAmy WinehouseG major88BPM
  10. Can’t Find My Way HomeBlind FaithG major88BPM

Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 87 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G majorAll songs at 87 BPMG major at 80–89 BPMColdplay

MusicBrainz collapses 21 recording ids into this one. Recording id 8353cabb-9649-4964-bb36-a3fd2382bae8.