Counting Crows · August and Everything After

Rain King

Rain King is in A major at 156.4 beats per minute.

Tempo

156 BPM · Vivacemedian of 201 analyses · 156.2–156.5 across the middle eight tenths

Key: A major3 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement: 98%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses: 201people who ran the extractor
One beat: 383.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning: 441Hz · +4 cents from A 440
Dynamics: 2.9dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness: 0.925Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability: 1.086Essentia'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

201 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 98% — put it in A major, a key signature of 3 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 201 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 156.4 BPM one beat lasts 383.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 95.9 ms and a dotted eighth 287.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 78.2 BPM, counted twice as fast 312.8. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 441 Hz, which is 4 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 2.9 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 0.925 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 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 156 BPM

Note value	Beats	Milliseconds	Hertz
Whole note	4	1534.5	0.65
Half note	2	767.3	1.3
Dotted quarter	1.5	575.4	1.74
Quarter note (one beat)	1	383.6	2.61
Quarter triplet	0.667	255.8	3.91
Dotted eighth	0.75	287.7	3.48
Eighth note	0.5	191.8	5.21
Eighth triplet	0.333	127.9	7.82
Dotted sixteenth	0.375	143.9	6.95
Sixteenth note	0.25	95.9	10.43
Sixteenth triplet	0.167	63.9	15.64
Thirty-second note	0.125	48	20.85

Half time 78.2 BPM · double time 312.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (383.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

Recordings in A major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 156 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A major All songs at 156 BPM A major at 150–159 BPM Counting Crows

MusicBrainz collapses 85 recording ids into this one. Recording id f7658468-fd24-4b2b-b508-4fb71fed177b.