TempoPeek

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High Fidelity

High Fidelity is in G major at 125.8 beats per minute.

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Tempo

126 BPM · Allegromedian of 219 analyses · 125.8–125.9 across the middle eight tenths
Key
G major1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
95%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
219people who ran the extractor
One beat
476.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.97dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.884Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.697Essentia'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

219 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 95% — put it in G major, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 219 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 125.8 BPM one beat lasts 476.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 119.2 ms and a dotted eighth 357.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 62.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 251.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 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 3.97 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 0.884 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 126 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41907.80.52
Half note2953.91.05
Dotted quarter1.5715.41.4
Quarter note (one beat)1476.92.1
Quarter triplet0.6673183.15
Dotted eighth0.75357.72.8
Eighth note0.5238.54.19
Eighth triplet0.3331596.29
Dotted sixteenth0.375178.95.59
Sixteenth note0.25119.28.39
Sixteenth triplet0.16779.512.58
Thirty-second note0.12559.616.77

Half time 62.9 BPM · double time 251.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (476.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

The same title by somebody else

  1. High FidelityElvis Costello & The AttractionsA minor144BPM

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. AmandaBostonG major126BPM
  2. Where the Streets Have No NameU2G major126BPM
  3. How Can I Tell YouCat StevensG major126BPM
  4. Shame on MeAviciiG major126BPM
  5. A Man and a WomanU2G major126BPM
  6. SometimesDepeche ModeG major126BPM
  7. The Last ResortEaglesG major126BPM
  8. AishaJohn ColtraneG major125BPM
  9. Bad LoveEric ClaptonG major125BPM
  10. Statesboro BluesThe Allman Brothers BandG major126BPM

Recordings in G major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 126 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in G majorAll songs at 126 BPMG major at 120–129 BPMDaft Punk

MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id 95ab771e-62b4-4324-befd-024356c190c6.