TempoPeek

Coldplay · Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends

Violet Hill

Violet Hill is in C sharp minor at 152.1 beats per minute.

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Tempo

152 BPM · Allegromedian of 239 analyses · 152–152.2 across the middle eight tenths
Key
C♯ minor4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
96%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
239people who ran the extractor
One beat
394.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
441.5Hz · +6 cents from A 440
Dynamics
6.99dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.733Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.017Essentia'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

239 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in C sharp minor, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 239 readings; 98% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 152.1 BPM one beat lasts 394.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 98.6 ms and a dotted eighth 295.9 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 76.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 304.2. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441.5 Hz, which is 6 cents above 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 6.99 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 0.733 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 sharp 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 C♯ minor

Each of these differs from C♯ 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 152 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41577.90.63
Half note27891.27
Dotted quarter1.5591.71.69
Quarter note (one beat)1394.52.54
Quarter triplet0.6672633.8
Dotted eighth0.75295.93.38
Eighth note0.5197.25.07
Eighth triplet0.333131.57.61
Dotted sixteenth0.375147.96.76
Sixteenth note0.2598.610.14
Sixteenth triplet0.16765.715.21
Thirty-second note0.12549.320.28

Half time 76.1 BPM · double time 304.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (394.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Search and DestroyIggy and The StoogesC♯ minor153BPM
  2. Children of the GraveBlack SabbathC♯ minor151BPM
  3. Liquor Store BluesBruno Mars feat. Damian MarleyC♯ minor151BPM
  4. Spinning the WheelGeorge MichaelC♯ minor150BPM
  5. All My LovingThe BeatlesC♯ minor155BPM
  6. I. Flight of the NavigatorChildish GambinoC♯ minor155BPM
  7. Revolution RockThe ClashC♯ minor156BPM
  8. Whole Lotta RosieAC/DCC♯ minor156BPM
  9. Granular BastardApparatC♯ minor148BPM
  10. Come a Little CloserCage the ElephantC♯ minor148BPM

Recordings in C sharp minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 152 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in C sharp minorAll songs at 152 BPMC♯ minor at 150–159 BPMColdplay

MusicBrainz collapses 26 recording ids into this one. Recording id ba4bcf45-fcdf-4ff7-a19e-be3fdffae337.