Dire Straits · Love Over Gold
Telegraph Road
Telegraph Road is in D minor at 119.6 beats per minute.
Tempo
120 BPM · Moderatomedian of 158 analyses · 118.2–129.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 87%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 158people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 501.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 445.4Hz · +21 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 7.78dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.23Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.112Essentia'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
158 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 87% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 158 readings; 70% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 118.2 to 129.1 BPM.
At 119.6 BPM one beat lasts 501.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 125.4 ms and a dotted eighth 376.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 59.8 BPM, counted twice as fast 239.2. A score would mark that Moderato, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 445.4 Hz, which is 21 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 7.78 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 0.23 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 D 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 D minor
Each of these differs from D 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 120 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2006.7 | 0.5 |
| Half note | 2 | 1003.3 | 1 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 752.5 | 1.33 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 501.7 | 1.99 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 334.4 | 2.99 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 376.3 | 2.66 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 250.8 | 3.99 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 167.2 | 5.98 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 188.1 | 5.32 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 125.4 | 7.97 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 83.6 | 11.96 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 62.7 | 15.95 |
Half time 59.8 BPM · double time 239.2 BPM. Every row is one beat (501.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- The Man Who Sold the WorldDavid BowieD minor119BPM
- StayDavid BowieD minor119BPM
- Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)ABBAD minor120BPM
- 3 A.M. Eternal (live at the S.S.L.)The KLFD minor119BPM
- Revolution 9The BeatlesD minor120BPM
- ShowerBecky GD minor120BPM
- Roller SkateNatasha BedingfieldD minor120BPM
- RunAirD minor120BPM
- Beautiful, Dirty, RichLady GagaD minor120BPM
- One TribeThe Black Eyed PeasD minor120BPM
Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 120 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D minorAll songs at 120 BPMD minor at 110–119 BPMDire Straits
MusicBrainz collapses 31 recording ids into this one. Recording id a73ae449-df76-46c2-8759-b693207784ed.