Coldplay · A Head Full of Dreams
Up&Up
Up&Up is in C major at 163.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
164 BPM · Vivacemedian of 170 analyses · 163.9–164 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 92%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 170people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 366.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 437Hz · -12 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 6.6dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.784Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.201Essentia'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
170 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 92% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 170 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 163.9 BPM one beat lasts 366.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 91.5 ms and a dotted eighth 274.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 82 BPM, counted twice as fast 327.8. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437 Hz, which is 12 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 6.6 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 0.784 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 C 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 C major
Each of these differs from C 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 164 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1464.3 | 0.68 |
| Half note | 2 | 732.2 | 1.37 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 549.1 | 1.82 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 366.1 | 2.73 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 244.1 | 4.1 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 274.6 | 3.64 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 183 | 5.46 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 122 | 8.2 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 137.3 | 7.28 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 91.5 | 10.93 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 61 | 16.39 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 45.8 | 21.85 |
Half time 82 BPM · double time 327.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (366.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Don’t Look Back in AngerOasisC major164BPM
- Caro gesu bambinoAndrea BocelliC major164BPM
- The PusherSteppenwolfC major164BPM
- Billy Boy$NOTC major164BPM
- Nine Million BicyclesKatie MeluaC major164BPM
- Bad Side of the MoonElton JohnC major164BPM
- Lucy in the Sky With DiamondsElton JohnC major164BPM
- Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly DazedDavid BowieC major164BPM
- The BlessingJohn Coltrane & Don CherryC major164BPM
- Echo BeachMartha and the MuffinsC major164BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 164 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 164 BPMC major at 160–169 BPMColdplay
MusicBrainz collapses 10 recording ids into this one. Recording id 3be3fe1a-6e3a-4f26-94a4-387b33a8c093.