Eagles · Hotel California
Hotel California
Hotel California is in B minor at 147.4 beats per minute.
Tempo
147 BPM · Allegromedian of 450 analyses · 147.3–147.8 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B minor2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 97%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 450people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 407.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 437.5Hz · -10 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 5.07dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.494Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.285Essentia'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
450 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 97% — put it in B minor, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 450 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 147.4 BPM one beat lasts 407.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 101.8 ms and a dotted eighth 305.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 73.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 294.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437.5 Hz, which is 10 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 5.07 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 0.494 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 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 B minor
Each of these differs from B 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 147 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1628.2 | 0.61 |
| Half note | 2 | 814.1 | 1.23 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 610.6 | 1.64 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 407.1 | 2.46 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 271.4 | 3.69 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 305.3 | 3.28 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 203.5 | 4.91 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 135.7 | 7.37 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 152.6 | 6.55 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 101.8 | 9.83 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 67.8 | 14.74 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 50.9 | 19.65 |
Half time 73.7 BPM · double time 294.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (407.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- SinnermanNina SimoneB minor147BPM
- Calm Like a BombRage Against the MachineB minor149BPM
- Isn’t It MidnightFleetwood MacB minor145BPM
- MantraToolB minor150BPM
- WHEN I WAS OLDERBillie EilishB minor150BPM
- VökuróBjörkB minor144BPM
- Lucifer SamPink FloydB minor141BPM
- Come Out and PlayOffspringB minor156BPM
- Dollars and CentsRadioheadB minor139BPM
- Punky Reggae PartyBob Marley & The WailersB minor135BPM
Recordings in B minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 147 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B minorAll songs at 147 BPMB minor at 140–149 BPMEagles
MusicBrainz collapses 83 recording ids into this one. Recording id 40bd0203-bc3f-4b15-9ab3-ceeb2ef35d7a.