Elvis Costello · This Year’s Model
No Action
No Action is in E major at 156 beats per minute.
Tempo
156 BPM · Vivacemedian of 131 analyses · 155.8–162.5 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- E major4 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 131people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 384.6milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 440.8Hz · +3 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 3.05dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.934Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.024Essentia'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
131 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in E major, a key signature of 4 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 131 readings; 77% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 155.8 to 162.5 BPM.
At 156 BPM one beat lasts 384.6 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 96.2 ms and a dotted eighth 288.5 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 78 BPM, counted twice as fast 312. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.8 Hz, which is 3 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 3.05 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 0.934 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 E 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 E major
Each of these differs from E 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 | 1538.5 | 0.65 |
| Half note | 2 | 769.2 | 1.3 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 576.9 | 1.73 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 384.6 | 2.6 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 256.4 | 3.9 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 288.5 | 3.47 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 192.3 | 5.2 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 128.2 | 7.8 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 144.2 | 6.93 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 96.2 | 10.4 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 64.1 | 15.6 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 48.1 | 20.8 |
Half time 78 BPM · double time 312 BPM. Every row is one beat (384.6 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Fade Into YouMazzy StarE major156BPM
- Remote ControlThe ClashE major156BPM
- Sunday MorningNo DoubtE major156BPM
- BreakingAnberlinE major156BPM
- NumbPortisheadE major156BPM
- Angels of the SilencesCounting CrowsE major157BPM
- Summertime BluesEddie CochranE major155BPM
- Born to RunFrankie Goes to HollywoodE major155BPM
- I Just Want to See His FaceThe Rolling StonesE major155BPM
- Beat on the BratRamonesE major155BPM
Recordings in E major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 156 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in E majorAll songs at 156 BPME major at 150–159 BPMElvis Costello
MusicBrainz collapses 6 recording ids into this one. Recording id 9bbd9db4-3ded-4b2c-9d5f-37df07ee9fe7.