TempoPeek

Coldplay · Parachutes

Yellow

Yellow is in B major at 86.6 beats per minute.

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Tempo

87 BPM · Andantemedian of 344 analyses · 86.6–86.7 across the middle eight tenths
Key
B major5 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
96%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
344people who ran the extractor
One beat
692.8milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
447.2Hz · +28 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.04dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.928Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.028Essentia'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

344 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 96% — put it in B major, a key signature of 5 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 344 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 86.6 BPM one beat lasts 692.8 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 173.2 ms and a dotted eighth 519.6 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 43.3 BPM, counted twice as fast 173.2. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 447.2 Hz, which is 28 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 3.04 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 0.928 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 B 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 B major

Each of these differs from B 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 note42771.40.36
Half note21385.70.72
Dotted quarter1.51039.30.96
Quarter note (one beat)1692.81.44
Quarter triplet0.667461.92.16
Dotted eighth0.75519.61.92
Eighth note0.5346.42.89
Eighth triplet0.333230.94.33
Dotted sixteenth0.375259.83.85
Sixteenth note0.25173.25.77
Sixteenth triplet0.167115.58.66
Thirty-second note0.12586.611.55

Half time 43.3 BPM · double time 173.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (692.8 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Listen to Your HeartRoxetteB major86BPM
  2. What Do I GetBuzzcocksB major88BPM
  3. IronicAlanis MorissetteB major85BPM
  4. King of HollywoodEaglesB major88BPM
  5. I’m Movin’ OnJohnny CashB major88BPM
  6. I Need You TonightBackstreet BoysB major85BPM
  7. Woman in LoveBarbra StreisandB major85BPM
  8. On Your OwnBlurB major84BPM
  9. I Miss YouBeyoncéB major84BPM
  10. NORTHFACE$NotB major89BPM

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

All songs in B majorAll songs at 87 BPMB major at 80–89 BPMColdplay

MusicBrainz collapses 115 recording ids into this one. Recording id 729cf505-94eb-4fbe-bc76-cbae44cff091.